UngeheuerLich
Legend
I really don't see why there is outrage about a bonus for people buying early.Still you can get it after a while as video game companies mostly get that its looks ludicrous trying to limit sale of digital goods. Those things never run out. It is one thing when in a crowdfunding there is a limited run of lets say miniatures that are only available as physical goods during that crowdfunding. Its is another thing if as companies lets say tries to say: Oh you can only get this PDF during a limited crowdfunding time period.
If a company tries this there will always be a sizeable number of their customers who are angered of by stuff like this.
In this case well WotC reaps what the sowed themselves. A part of their customer base now have way less trust in the company and assume now the worst of them. Trust is build slowly slowly and can get lost in an instant.
Right now I hesitate to buy new things, because of the edition change. That offer might swing the pendulum for me towards buying it before the new books come out or waiting for a discount.
Before they just offered useless backgrounds for the character builder.
The only thing I see is FLGS gaining some further difficulty. I still think every physical book should come with a digital code if you buy it in a store. But those are two different subjects.