actually there is a big difference. I paid $99 for the lifetime updates and now it is doubled... That's an increase, I'd say. If they extended the $99 offer to those that qualified, that's another story. People seem to continue talking like that's what theyve done. I held out until the end, so my one time upgrade payments where spread out as much as possible. Really was no sense in upgrading back in May, when the offer was good thru 8/31. And like many previous upgraders to SPlat, it was offered for 1/2 of what it is now.