Not trying to be a bell, but CD Projekt Red are one of the only studios out there that actually give a damn about gamers, want to give you value for money and are driven by creative goals over financial ones. So I can't in good spirit endorse their game's piracy. I get that games are expensive -- too expensive -- but this if you buy one game this year, this deserves to be it
In short, it's 100x better than Skyrim. You can follow the story quite easily but you'll get lost with everything else you can do. However they streamline it nicely; side quests are actually inventive, fun and often humourous, not 'Fedex Quests' like most other WRPGs, as I heard someone brilliantly say. Combat is better than Skyrim's and the storytelling is on another level too.
Honestly depends what you don't like about Skyrim though. It being too unfocused? I think this has a clearer focus on the main goal and far more meat on its bones in that regard. Also from what the reviews have said, it seems to justify its open world better than most open world games (I'm looking at you, LA Noire/Mafia 2).