TheMacPak: 11 Apps for $30 (today)
Here's another one of the take it or leave it variety. TheMacPak is a special bundle deal a la MacHeist and MacZOT. In this case, the bundle promises 10 (or 11) applications for $30, starting today. But they are only going to reveal them one at a time, with the price going up $5 each time (up to $75). The first application is online now, and involves a choice between two games from Pangea Software: Otto Matic or Pangea Arcade. They are promising "no MacHeist dupes, No MacZot Friday 13th dupes, No MacAppADay dupes, no apps with less than 4/5 on MacUpdate, no widgets" and a total bundle value of $288.86. Note, however, that serials will not begin to be emailed until June 1st and may take up to 14 days more. TheMacPak is available for purchase now.
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Richard Zimmer said 5:36PM on 5-01-2007
Who the hell wants to wait a month for a serial # ?
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Devin Lussier said 5:46PM on 5-01-2007
I bought Macheist because it had a couple apps I intended to buy anyways and the timing was right. But I think this trend of "buy our app/apps now and we'll tell you what it is later" is getting really annoying. Is the state of the Mac app market such that people really need to hide the products they're selling from consumers and hope they'll buy? I hope this fad goes away soon.
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Zachary Hinchliffe said 6:21PM on 5-01-2007
MacHeist was a dupe? What? I found it a very valuable purchase.
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Sam said 6:41PM on 5-01-2007
@Zach: He's not saying that MacHeist was a dupe, only that the TheMacPak doesn't contain duplicates of apps that were in Macheist, MacZot, or MacAppADay.
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DeMarko said 6:54PM on 5-01-2007
wow, now I see why there wasn't a lot of hype for this. the website looks pretty bad, not to mention, freakin' shady too.
For one, this is a big step down from Macheist IMHO. Macheist wasn't just profitable, it was also A LOT of fun. I don't think I can emphasize how much fun it was without causing some sort of integer overflow. In any case, Macheist also had a very cool looking website which was a joy to use for every heist.
And as for spending money, PayPal? I don't know about you, but I've never been big on PayPal. It's bad enough we have no clue what the apps are, and don't get me wrong, they could be great, but I'm not one to spend $30 on something I don't know or will not get for a few weeks still (unless it's a subscription to Wired, which is amazing). Macheist emailed me my serials almost instantly considering the volume of requests they had, and also...good cause.
Oh, and, is it really that hard to hire a graphic designer? Really? I call shaaaaady
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b said 7:18PM on 5-01-2007
i'm tired of this gimmicky/shady sales tactic. basically send us some money, and we'll send you back whatever we feel like whenever we feel like it. pfft.
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racco said 8:27PM on 5-01-2007
"no MacHeist dupes"
errrrm, wrong
I got Pangea Arcade from MacHeist.
oh, and Otto Matic came with my iMac
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racco said 8:32PM on 5-01-2007
just wanted to add that I agree with what DeMarko said about MacHeist :) i loved it
not what was said about PayPal though, i like it
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Brian said 10:26PM on 5-01-2007
No thanks. You'll tell me what I'm getting after I pay for it?
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Craig said 11:17PM on 5-01-2007
Well rather than guess whether or not it legit - I emailed the only developer disclosed so far ie. Pangea
Brian Greenstone (President & CEO, Pangea Software, Inc. ) and he confirms that Pangea are involved with a succinct "Yep :)"
Given Brian's long history of neat products and the fact that I was going to buy Arcade anyway seem like a viable off - even with the glitches of a premature website release.
cheers
Craig
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Craig said 11:45PM on 5-01-2007
Just a thought - but I'd guess that the delay is for several reason:
• what is the turn around on PayPal to the receiver? and onto the respective developers?
• also to prevent people from knowing the applications ahead of time TheMacPak would have to setup a staggered sending of registrations to each developer to generate the serial numbers...
Maybe these sorts of things could add up to 6 weeks... too bad my Pangea Arcade trial has expired!
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JeffDM said 12:47AM on 5-02-2007
No thanks. I thought MacHeist was lame. I'm not going to bother with gimmicks like this.
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Craig said 10:53AM on 5-02-2007
That MacZot Friday 13th thing was incredibly poor. I emailed beforehand to ask about the timeframe of the deal (living in the UK and the event taking place from 9pm (UK time) it would seem reasonable to check whether it would be running through the night here. I got an incredibly rude response from MacZot. To make matters worse they obviously took their site down during the deal. I kept refreshing and the moment it hit 9.13 (1.13) the site when down! Frankly disgusting!
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designbot said 11:44AM on 5-02-2007
These things are so freakin' lame. If the programs were worth what they're charging, they could just tell you what they were and quadruple their sales. I hate these mind games.
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AAwoken said 3:18PM on 5-02-2007
What they hey I liked Macheist and I imagine most people did not crack the puzzles themselves but relied on the forums for the answers. I di not like all the software from Macheist but paid up to get the one's I did. People pony up money for Woot! mystery bags of crap why not this?
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