[babuskov]

Yes. And it teaches the consumers that there's no point in waiting. When you want their game, you just buy it at full price on launch date, because you know that waiting for discount would take years and even then it would be 20-30% off at best.

[born2meme]

Or in my case it taught me to not want to play the fucking thing at all.

Simple as.

[TremendousJudge]

Well the strategy relies on the games being really good in the first place, so that many people wouldn't take that option.