A very "I'm sorry you were offended" response.
https://twitter.com/Filmora_Editor/status/160918041318809600...
> 6. Under what circumstances can I upgrade to Filmora 12 for free?
> - You are a lifetime user of Filmora 9 or the earlier version.
> - You are a Filmora subscription user.
> - You purchased the Filmora 11 perpetual plan within 90 days.
> - You are a business/education/team perpetual license user.
The current version of the same page says:
> 6. Under what circumstances can I upgrade to Filmora 12 for free?
> - You are a Filmora subscription user.
> - You purchased the Filmora 11 perpetual plan within 90 days before Filmora 12's official launch (Purchased from September 14, 2022 to December 11, 2022)
Obviously that page doesn't form part of the initial licence, but it doesn't exactly make the decision look any better.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221209023321/https://filmora.w...
Their use of the word "generously" is egregiously wrong there, since the thing they're offering you is something that they already owed you anyway! That deal is basically "we're only going to give you a subset of what we originally promised you when you bought your license, and we're not going to give you anything else in return to make up for it."