[Duncan]

... to ditch their forums they must of been sick of the bad mouthing

bad mouthing?!? I think they just wanted to avoid the posts of all the annoyed customers who have noticed that RC has quit their plugin and forgot about the promise they made that all old fry/arion customers will get one free Live plugin as compensation for the RC5 cancellation!
Maybe THEY call it bad mouthing, yes...

Yep it was a poor business decision, promising one thing and delivering another. They could have fixed it up if they just decided to give Arion to the original Fry users instead of nothing.
Anyway this has been discussed in length on various forums over and over again, so I'll stop here.

cheers