Interestingly enough: https://appsumo.com/kingsumo1-black-friday-2016-offer/ https://appsumo.com/kingsumo1-black-friday-2016-offer/ - the 2016 sale says "free

Interestingly enough: https://appsumo.com/kingsumo1-black-friday-2016-offer/ https://appsumo.com/kingsumo1-black-friday-2016-offer/ - the 2016 sale says "free updates for life" https://appsumo.com/black-friday-kingsumo-personal-2017/ https://appsumo.com/black-friday-kingsumo-personal-2017/ - the 2017 black friday sale suddenly does not have that (seem like here they already knew they will sell SaaS soon, but this is rare on appsumo to not promise updates for life, most probably overlooked this) All AppSumo lifetime deals include all future upgrades (unless they clearly specify its 1 year licence or so), this is the general expectation, and that's the point of it. Many deals are kinda broken and unusable at the point of their sale, but people will buy they in hope they will become great in future. Yes its kinda like beta versions. This is happening time and time again ... many AppSumo deals changed dramatically and the lifetime deals are still honored, some even change their pricing models completely, but in some shape or form, the lifetime deals are still honored. It's basically early funding and exposure (more importantly). When I bought Mailshake it was pretty basic, but damn, they still keep adding features. They could have done the same and say, hey, if you want the new Zapier integration, you gotta pay for it, but they dont do that, because they set certain exepcation with lifetime licence. The point is that this didn't go as expected.