Well, if you want to upgrade, you need member area access; the member area access is what you pay for... So yes, if you intend to upgrade you need to pay...

It works this way with plenty of scripts; in fact I believe we had a nag fit on this very topic about a year ago where several users included script providers which do the SAME thing...

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