ThemePunched Below The Belt - Life Support Removed Without Consent
Since 2013, I've purchased four (4) Slider Revolution plugins with "lifetime" licensing, and I've honestly only used the Slider Revolution WordPress plugin for creating fancy photo sliders for my various page heading (I'm a property photographer) and to use a few of its themes.
But the update to SR7 now forces us lifetime customers to become subscription-based customers, and you gave little thought to honour the thousands of faithful customers who bought lifetime subscriptions.
And to add insult to injury (but not too surprising given the vulnerabilities we've faithfully endured over the years), SR6 produces a vulnerability that cannot be corrected unless one subscribes to SR7.
Warning: * Unknown WordPress core version: 7.0. Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via 'sliders/stream'.
Lovely. It was a nice ride but our time is done ThemePunch.
For you not to even think about offering and honouring a "lifetime" license for those who bought lifetime licenses speaks volumes about your company.
So now you're forcing me (and countless others) to move to another more affordable provider.
I'm choosing LayerSlider where I can pay just £155 ($207) for a "lifetime plugin" for three sites. I'm sure thousand will do the same.
In a world where nearly everything online is now subscription based, you folks still have not clued-in that you are not the only option. You're just following the others like lemmings off a cliff.
Cheers,
Frank