Originally I found pirate theme very childish (maybe some nostalgic to sidmeier's pirates but not enough) and didn't want to buy deadfire. And another reason was that I hadn't completed PoE which I tried dozen times to do blindly Triple Crown (best was act 3). It was like artsy movie or very intelligent book which I would love to be keen on but it wasn't. It didn't hook me.
Currently I just ****ed my trial of iron + veteran upscaled to last boss in deadfire and still continuing but this time with doing dlc's too (just finished bow and sss). I love the game and even pirate theme feels really well done and it has surpassed thoroughly my expectations but I didn't know that back then when I made purchase or not decision.
I'm playing thru gamepass.