Sweet! I hope the sales rock that way there will be more proof beyond Sins that DRM hurts games. I noticed several people/sites jumped on the WoG being just as pirated as other titles with DRM. I think that had a lot to do with the fact it is a puzzle game and from an unknown studio to boot. So people were "testing things out" so to speak. This situation if it works out well will prove my point. After all Ubi is a major player in the industry and PoP is a major title with some history.

Yeah, that's a good point. Interestingly, while 2DBoy said it was disheartening to see the high piracy numbers for WoG, they also said it wasn't any worse than they'd have expected if the game carried a DRM scheme, so they weren'y really that disappointed overall. (And they also pointed out their 'research' was very unscientific as well).

I'll believe it when it is out.

And even then there is a chance I won't.

@CrazyC0330 - yes it would. Hell I assumed you guys already so such a thing. I'll comment to Razz next time I'm over in Ubi country.

@Heavenfall - some people are all ready reporting they have it and no DRM.

DRM or no DRM, piracy levels will be the same. The point is that as a game studio, they won't be spending obscene amounts of time, effort and money on something which gets removed within a couple of days, and even more importantly, will not annoy their legitimate customers and hamper their enjoyment of the product.

I remember the first Prince of Persia well, played it from a 5.25" diskette back in the day of EGA graphics.

Might just pick this one up to see how it compares.

Where is a sales guy when you need one? 

The easiest would be to just log on IRC and prod Yarlen/Zoomba

You do know I hate IRC -right? I'm a VoIP guy.

Well ARS followed up on my email with a story is here. The spin on it is most jaded and delicious methinks. The comments at going on four pages in a few token hours are really something to say the least... I thought I was reading the SD thread on DRM for a few seconds.

Some other gamer news are also developing storys as well - Gee Ubi should hire me as a grassroots PR consultant.

@Annatar - No doubt. 

Shack also ran a story on PoP as well. You can read it here. I must say the user responses everywhere have been amazing. I was not aware that PoP was such an interesting title. Yet I find nothing interesting about it. I guess being a strategy game grognard has a price after all...

Things are going well with my PR campagin for PoP. It has been referenced on a couple sites like digg today and now Kotaku has an article here.

I have also contacted a few media outlets and informed of the situation as well. I hope all goes well with those requests.

Additionally Ubi things over two million sales is good and three million in the long tail is achievable. You can read the official comment here.

Yep. It is as I said both sides are very cynical.

Anyway, GP just published an article on it. You can read it here.

Bit-tech published an article here and there is a pimp on TechSpot here.