Her motivation is to remove the software license aspect of digital games in an effort to preserve them after developers drop support.
[1] Empress also states that removing digital rights management (DRM) increases performance in-game.
[1] Her followers could participate in polls to select which game they want cracked next, and her work was funded through crowdsourced donations.
[1] In February 2021, Empress stated that she would soon be arrested after being allegedly caught working on a crack for Immortals Fenyx Rising.
For example, the information file supplied with the cracked version of Hogwarts Legacy expressed dissatisfaction with what was described as the "woke system" of today, defending Harry Potter series creator J.K. Rowling's views on transgender people.