Just learned about this mechanic after logging back into the game after a year. Checking my email, I do see the liquidation notice but since it came in at 7AM on a Saturday I wasn’t looking at my email and by the time I did it was buried in between Jimmy John’s and Uber Eat’s promotional emails.
I maintained a PRO license for several months. So it just feels really bad to log in and have absolutely nothing after paying the company. I don’t know what data storage rates are like but it seems like twenty or thirty bucks would cover a few hundred database rows.
Maybe in the future this could be limited to just accounts that have never subbed. I imagine that makes up the vast majority of abandoned accounts, and that way customers who have paid in the past are more likely to renew their sub if they do come back after a long break.