until they are inevitably cracked (which has been done with many denuvo games already) and pirates enjoy better performance once again.

The steam page literally says that it requires a 3rd party account for online play (just not required for offline play). so I'm not sure if that's what you're referencing.

Wish it didn't require a 2k account. don't need another account to play a video game.

you should check out playnite: https://playnite.link/

shouldn't we be working towards a better someday than settling for a worse today?