Rip off just for captcha!

Just to clarify a couple of things:

1. We regularly point users to code snippets like https://pastebin.com/Hn0aQhUU which can help them integrate captacha with Events Manager without needing the Pro version of the plugin.

2. The Pro plugin helps finance the development of:

a) The free plugin, as well as the optional Pro add-on

b) The extensive (free) support for the free plugin given here on the WordPress forums

If you have a specific issue you’d like help with we’ll try to assist.

Let me also clarify some things…

1) Yes, my post might seem overboard and I look like an ungrateful person who just slams the hard work of developers, but I do feel my post has merit.

2) I really do appreciate the help posted and this forum has always been of great help.

3) Events Manager is a great plugin and the free version is of great use. I did not ask for the free plugin, they gave the free version and I am truly grateful. What makes me so upset is not the fact that I have to pay for the plugin, it is that I have to pay a very expensive fee for something that should be part of the free version. I am upset about their marketing strategy and their ethics, not their skills. If the free version had half the functionality it currently had, I would most probably not think twice to pay $75 to get full functionality, but I have a major issue paying $75 just to add support for CAPTCHA. Our site is blocked because of the spam sent by this plugin! So I am forced to look for another plugin or pay just to add something to stop spam because of bad programming!