Haven't bothered to pirate the game, just playing the free version, but really this guy's gotta do a big bugfixing, balance and patching marathon of the game, really clean up all the jank. It's always been a really janky, unbalanced game though, so I don't see the dev ever knuckling down and polishing the game up.
Also I guess it's more of a "skill issue", but to this day, I've never, ever been able to interact with that one-armed blacksmith. 100% of the time, I'm always skipping dialogue (I'm a speedreader) and 100% always end up clicking the option that offends the goober and locks me out of whatever that character's for.