Ubisoft has been heavily criticized before for using Starforce and SecuROM DRM systems, but for their latest title, Prince of Persia, they decided to offer it completely free of all and any copy protection systems.
"A lot of people complain that DRM is what forces people to pirate games but as PoP PC has no DRM we'll see how truthful people actually are. Not very, I imagine," Community Manager UbiRazz wrote on the official forum.
He then noted that this applies to retail DVDs only, as Steam version will still be tied to Steam's authentication system.
Prince Of Persia will, no doubt, be pirated just like any other game. In fact, the game has already been available on p2p networks for a few days now. But will it be pirated less than other titles, or will it be just another argument for publishers when they want to defend DRM?








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Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
oooh first post.we'll see mang this will be the test, and hopefully DRM will lose.
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
A leap of faith hmm?Sins of a Solar Empire sells well, and it contains no DRM. Will PoP be so lucky? The bigger the title the worse the piracy, I imagine.
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
piracy inst just effect by drm. the better known the tittle, the more pirated it is. the more popular the genera the more pirated it is.. the worse game it is/unplayable like crysis, the more pirated it is... so as long as pop is a solid game that runs fine, it shouldn't be as pirated as some other titles, especially since by not pirating this game, and buying it, your helping to remove drm... so even a pirate should want to buy this game
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
Having no copy protection is stupid... no-one wants that (not even pirates as they would have nothing to crack), its just DRM that people hate/pirates love.
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
has any one notice? the game sucks...lol....no one will buy this crap...
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
Works for StarDock, though I believe they have you authenticate your copy for patches. A great business model if you ask me, especially if you're in the habit of actually supporting and expanding your game after release.
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
So basically, no matter how well the game sells he wants to claim piracy cost them imaginary sales?
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
Sony's Securom DRM bulls**t is fairly new. If you really want to know what effect it had, look at sales before and after developers started implementing it.No difference, huh? Big surprise! DRM doesn't stop piracy at all, it stops legitimate customers.
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
sell the games at 14.99 the same pirce as world of warcraft. Make Billions. Sell the games at 69 a oop, meet Piracy at the front door.
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
well its still going to be downloaded lol. but has it any good online features ? like cod4 or left 4 dead ? releasing the game without DRM wont prove that piracy is killing the pc market... as i personally think pop is a rubbish game ! if they released spore without DRM it would of still been downloaded the same amount of times !
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
I installed my flatmates retail copy, found it had no copy protection and STILL went out and bought it myself.
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
sony securom. sonys ps3. Sony overpriced tvs. sony sony sony, all s**t from them
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
Microsoft Vista.Microsoft's Zune.Microsoft overpriced operating systems.Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft, all s**t from them
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
to anon at 11:14,Even at that price, I would still pirate that s**t cus it's good to get something for nothing.
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
its a fine game, i especially like the keyboard controlls they pulled.gonna buy it since its *DRM FREE*
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
@ anon 7:59youre a stupid c u n t if youre going to have that aditude. All youre doing is ruining it for the rest of us.I just hope that Ubi only looks at the sales numbers, or just looks at the numbers of pirates on PoP verses the number of pirates on other DRM games. as long as they do that, this will work. I just hope they arent pulling this so that they can say "well, we tried it, and it didnt work" even though it really did.
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
Way to go Ubisoft - I work hard for an Intel partner OEM, and I dont wan't people to steal my Hardware or Software either- The hard working people at UBI - (Specifically coders, artwork specialists / GFX designers), deserve our hard earned for making the effort to produce such quality software, and they are certainly going to recieve my hard earned wonga for this product.So much better than Rockstar's strategy of putting in a Rootkit (Securom)!
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
i dont even like this s**tty series but imma go buy it anyway just because of this lol
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
a single tear rolls down my cheek
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
Hated almost every other POP game, but this one actually rocks. I d/led my copy, but I just ordered it from Gamestop. :-)
Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever
i swear god that's totally right ! that's why i feel like to buy an original copy now =D
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