Strong leaders can help good teams become stronger but it is not one or the other. You cannot carry something as complicated as game production on 1 or 2 backs; conversely you could have the worlds best artists, writers, and programmers but if they arent communicating well they’re never gonna reach their full potential.
I will never run them. Opening up your PC so thoroughly is not worth the risk just to play a pirated game. Besides, on a long enough timeline all those HV-only cracks will have safer cracks made for them, so just be patient and wait.
Companies want to squeeze us for maximum value while providing minimal effort. So they get what they give; they should be competing with “free” but would much rather fruitlessly put up roadblocks that only hurt paying customers, leading more people to piracy. Its delicious and theres nothing they can do to stop it.
This is ignoring the glaring problems with the half-baked design that was missing any kind of innovation in open world design that had occured since witcher 3. It just felt bland and unfinished in a lot of ways, not to mention bugs galore that had nothing to do with the hardware running it. Cant blame all the glitches on the machine not being powerful enough…