The irony is had they made this thing an offline app as it should have been from the beginning, their server costs wouldn't be nearly so high and they might not have needed to do this.
I suspect that their server maintenance costs ended up being too much for their profit margins to keep up with, so they did this in hopes that the people whose keys expired would buy new ones. I didn't care that much because I haven't used it in ages but I still cared because of the people who felt robbed and cheated by this obviously scummy and imo legally questionable move because it was advertised as a lifetime key. 'My grandmother is sick and dying, and she can't eat anything right. Recently I got an e-mail saying that my "lifetime" key wasn't lifetime anymore and would expire in a month. I bought a lifetime key roughly five years ago. But now they've taken that to a whole new level. It's clear from the outset that they always felt emboldened due to the fact that they were the only game in town, so they felt like they could do whatever they wanted and people would still buy it because there were no other options. license, can be a gateway into managing a smallbusiness or personal portal. They can't keep their servers running forever. Once we had PHP-Nuke installed, a simple. The fact that it required an online connection meant that the product would always be rendered useless sooner or later. Your computer is just as capable of decrypting and modifying your save as their servers are. This company was always terrible From the very beginning they made this product require a connection to their server, even though it is entirely unnecessary. Unnecessary Online Requirements, Terrible Customer Service and Expiring License Keys, Oh My!