First, IT3 is being published under Forge Apps instead of Jeff's personal dev account, which means that we don't have an option to offer the upgrade for free to existing users because it's being published as a completely new application with a completely new bundle identifier.

Second, IT3 is a substantial upgrade from the IT1/2 platform, and the upgrades that will be coming in 3.1 and 3.2 will continue to set IT3 apart. As a result, we think it's more than fair to charge for this upgrade. Tons of work went into it, and we have to pay the bills too.

Plus, at the end of the day, if you don't want to spend $.99 on a game, don't.

All that said, follow the twitter feed as we'll be giving away promo codes once the game is out! You can still get your free upgrade after all!