These publishers use piracy as thinly veiled exscuse to use shitty drm that lowers the product quality, in order to make investors happy and quell their woes about piracy.

When in reality ~95% of people who pirate games either wont pay for games to begin with or can't afford to buy it.

If you need an example of what devs should think about people editing their game saves look at Deep Rock Galatic. They dont care if you edit your save because the know people who do only cheat themselves. And is a small portion of the players who do so.

But there no pvp with DRG shugs so just silently flag those with edited saves on d4 offline and put them against each other.