Plugins updates policy change

Dear customers, the LCweb evolving process started one year ago with the Shop launch, today makes the final step towards a fair and sustainable products usage. Please read carefully the following chapters to understand what is this about

A bit of context

There was a time (approx. 10 years ago) when Envato was a guarantee of fresh customers and incomes for authors developing good products. Their “pay once get everything” policy was a great deal for customers, but only sustainable maintaining the customers flow.  

This business model ended up being a cancer for the marketplace:

• the licenses abuse rate was huge, often because customers didn’t even know about license terms
• having access to any update for a small price was a great deal also for “pirates”, constantly uploading premium products on illegal websites
• no recurring incomes means no budget to maintain products

This, along with marketplace over saturation, led to a great traffic/sales decrease since 2021 and culminated to the Envato company acquisition in 2024.

The state of the art

With LCweb Shop being the pillar of the business and despite of very low sales coming from Codecanyon, I kept releasing updates also on there. However, since May 2025, the level fell so much that this decision became inevitable.

To keep giving lifetime updates to everyone is harmful for the business and totally disrespectful for the hundreds of customers trusting LCweb and keep supporting the projects. The software is a live thing and requires continuous efforts to maintain projects.

Because of this

• you won’t find anymore product updates on Codecanyon
• plugin packages can be downloaded from the Licenses Hub (for Envato customers) or from the LCweb Shop
• Updates will be given basing on the purchase date and guaranteed for 2 years. A quick example to let you better understand: today, customers having purchased the product in July 2023 gets the last product releases, while February 2023 licenses have access to older versions
• Keeping the support entitlement active, will always grant access to the last version (and to the automated-updater)
• Clearly your licenses will still be active even if expired

NB: obviously I won’t push you towards ancient releases. The chronology starts from April 2025.

The DIKE concept

Equity is the keyword.

In 2022 I created Dike (the licenses hub) to stop products usage abuses and take control over the Envato licenses. Dike is the greek justice goddes and I chose the name aiming to the fairest usage possible, according to rules.

I firmly believe this is the only way to maintain the business and keep giving you the best tools possible for your websites.  

If you’ve got questions please write at [email protected]

Best regards,
Luca (aka LCweb)