Dorico 6 grace period

[arco]

Yeah, sorry, but this does happen, they have to have a cut-off date somewhere in time.
It will be discounted at some time in the future if you want to wait (or maybe it is possible to download the trial version to evaluate?)

Ref:

Dorico 5 to 6

There will always be an update later! You have to judge whether the additional functionality added in Dorico 6 is worth the modest update price we are asking for it. If you bought Dorico 5 as a crossgrade from Finale, you paid only $149 for a product that would normally cost at least $299 (if you bought the regular Finale crossgrade) and for which many people paid as much as $579, so you got a great deal. Do the features added in Dorico 6 provide $99 worth of value for the things you do with …