Prince of Persia has no DRM

[Shawn Zipay]

If you purchased a retail copy of Prince of Persia for your home computer, you may be relieved to hear that there is no DRM in place. A community developer made mention of the lack of DRM in a forum posting on the Ubisoft boards.

You`re right when you say that when people want to pirate the game they will but DRM is there to make it as difficult as possible for pirates to make copies of our games. 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.

Console piracy is something else entirely and I`m sure we`ll see more steps in future to try to combat that.

If you purchased a digital copy of Prince of Persia, you may still have some form DRM included. However, this DRM varies based on which digital distribution system you bought the game through.

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Re: Prince of Persia has no DRM

People come up with all sorts of reasons to pirate software. If it were impossible to pirate games, people still wouldn't buy all of them. As it is, I can only afford to buy about one game a month. That doesn't mean I steal the rest of them. But some people do.
I see us getting to a point where either the price drops for digital distribution or less games are released. With the current economy, people can't afford to blow $50 on each game and are looking for ways to save money. They've effectively shut down the sale of used PC games via draconian EULA's so that's rarely an option now.
It doesn't help that about 1/2 of the games that come out are released in a state of shenanigans.

[Dairuka]

Re: Prince of Persia has no DRM

I've been applauding Ubisoft for their decision, and it's the entire reason I bought this version of Prince of Persia, even if I didn't buy it's predecessors. (I rented the earlier ones for the consoles instead...)

Hopefully they understand that their decision earned them one extra sale that they wouldn't have had otherwise.

My only gripe with this game is that it's vastly easier than it's predecessors... It's more of an Arcade game, than a platformer.