> No. Yes. > You can't "not count" major version upgrades because that's how you make "pay once" actually work. Pixelmator. Affinity. Again. Also Panic. Fina

> No. Yes. > You can't "not count" major version upgrades because that's how you make "pay once" actually work. Pixelmator. Affinity. Again. Also Panic. Final Cut. Motion. Logic. SiteSucker. Unarchiver. I paid literally once for them years ago and they're still getting substantial updates and I'm still getting the latest version on every machine, without having to do anything except sign into my App Store account. Panic even let you receive updates for Coda after they took it off the App Store! The majority of apps I use are pay-once. The majority of games I play are pay-once. The next most common model is yearly-upgrade (Parallels, CrossOver, Path Finder) or sequel/expansion, but even they do not prevent me from using their older versions if I choose to (system compatibility notwithstanding.) > That's a hack, which I mentioned in an other comment: the appstore has no support for this model Yet they are all there on the App Store. I have been using Acorn for years and I was able to choose when to upgrade and I always did. I can still access the older versions; the App Store itself shows them to me in my history. They can still publish the older versions if they wanted to. > loss of history, reviews, links New reviews for a new version is how it has always worked for all apps on the App Store, and how it should be, considering how updates sometimes piss users off. Keeping the same history/ratings/reviews across all versions is vulnerable to baits-and-switches. As for links, again taking Acorn as an example, whenever a new version was available, the older versions mentioned it in an alert and on their product pages.