The previous vent thread (
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...343366&page=10) was closed due to, "people in this and any thread related to this difficult situation decide to continue using it as a reason to attack one another, make xenophobic comments, and all the other bad behavior currently on display." I'm interpreting that at face value to mean that complaining about bad business practices is still perfectly fine, and that OOTP has no intention of shutting down any and all criticism.
So I'm re-opening the discussion of OOTP's decision to damage players' save files. Please continue discussing here without xenophobic comments, which must have been in the part of the previous thread which I didn't read.