When I joined the RTS forums, the Launch didn’t exist. The RealTouch had recently died due to patent trolling, and finding scripts for the Vorze Cyclone was most easily done there.
I, too, was confused by the paid/free script section paradigm, but it’s absolutely as I described. The free/paid description refers to how you can access the video, and has nothing to do with the script. Before the SyncArmy stuff started, nobody charged for scripts. They just posted them to the forum.