Retail Copies of Prince of Persia on PC have no DRM

Digital Rights Management in PC games became a big media issue after the Great Spore Debacle of 08. Now Ubisoft, at least, seems to have chosen not to risk any bad PR on account of it -- they’ve revealed that unlike Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 before it, retail copies of Prince of Persia for the PC do not have any DRM.

Oddly enough, as Chris "UbiRazz" Easton explains it in a Prince of Persia forum post on the topic (via Shacknews), it almost seems like the decision was made as an experiment to test the logic of consumers who boycott the use of DRM. "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," Easton wrote.

So will Prince of Persia go on to be any more pirated now that it lacks DRM? Any less? Will it’s stance on DRM actually have anything to do with it? Hopefully Ubisoft will go on to reveal pirating statistics for the title down the line, and we can see how the experiment went.