Nem said: Turkish said: -Multiple save files -Cloud save on PS+ =win Pay extra for your game not to be broken. Solid advice that.   Yeah... it sucks OP. I would simply not buy more games from that developer/publisher.

Paying extra for the convenience of having an extra back-up automatically made for most games isn't some microtransaction that gives you more health.  If you have problems with PS+, that's all fine and dandy, there are many reasons to have problems with PS+, but the convenience of cloud saves is not one of them.  I won't even get into how wrong it is to immediately blame the developer for what could easily be a freak, unrepeatable event.

OT: I'm really sorry to hear that, OP.  If you do have PS+, check your cloud saves for sure.  I once lost my R&CF: ACiT file one level away from Platinum.  I had to beat the game two more times because of that.  Maybe that's subliminally part of the reason I'm not as big a fan of that game as others are...nah.  I also had that problem when my power went out once while playing NFS: Pro Street on PS2.  That one really stung.  Out of spite I 100%ed the game over that weekend (even the bit I was trying to beat and couldn't on the old file, first try!) and never played it again.  I'm sure we've all been there.

Hell, you could even try downloading a save, if that's still a thing that works.  I don't think it is, but it might be worth a shot.

I have PS+ so I don't run into that problem thankfully.

Also, I don't think I've ever gotten a corrupted save file before.

No, never happened to me, but a friend of mine happened, he's been playing Skyrim for a decade then his save files got corrupted.

Yup, that's what BC on ps3 did for me. I had multiple saves on FF12, yet the whole virtual memory card went corrupt on the way to the final dungeon with my lvl 120 maxed out, fully optimized party... Watched the end on you tube.

I lost my GT5 career complete save when my ps3 went ylod. I had not backed it up yet. Luckily I didn't mind doing it all again.

I've had my Minecraft save go corrupt on ps4 and now regularly upload it to the cloud just to be sure. Especially after local copies turned out to be corrupt for a while. (It fixed itself somehow, it's now copying fine again) Was a bit of a scare, always copying and renaming it. Then wanted to go back to a previous state and it wouldn't load doh!

The last time was in Alien Isolation, chapter 14 or so had a game ending bug depending on what you did 2 chapters back. Luckily I had multiple saves so I could go back to replay the previous chapters.

Welll that is his choice. 

I would probably stop at the developer.If its been closed... well we can tell why eh? :p

Again... paying extra for something that should work properly in the first place. I do have problems when the solution to broken products is to throw more money at it. How is that positive for anyone but the seller? 

This isn't paying extra for the convinience as you wrongly put it. This is paying to not have the incovenience, wich is very different.