Anecdotally I own both a legal and a cracked copy of GTAV. The legal copy was nice in the first year the game came out and I wanted access to all features, so

Anecdotally I own both a legal and a cracked copy of GTAV. The legal copy was nice in the first year the game came out and I wanted access to all features, so I grimaced and put up with the bloatware required to actually log in to the game and play it. Then I got bored, uninstalled it and didn't play it for a few years. Recently I got a hankering to play it once more and shuddered at the memory of all the intrusive software bloat, as well as the toxic online community centrer around aggressive play. So I went with the crack (hassle-free and self-contained in a single directory) and joined a FiveM online server for multiplayer play, and the experience was painless, enjoyable even.