The post on Beta-Waffle is a true wall of text (also, rendered in unreadable font in Firefox), but the main message is fairly scary fearmongering about NIS' release practices. To be sure, he makes fun of idiot gamers fretting about the name order and other petty issues first, but there's also some scary stuff:

We don’t really know all that much about the direction NISA is going to take with their anime publications, but we can make some pretty good guesses based on the press releases and hearsay. The likelyhood is that we’ll be seeing 13-episode, subtitle-only releases that’ll only be available from a handful of online-only stores – I’d reckon NISA’s own RosenQueen, Rightstuf, Amazon and possibly Roberts. There’ll probably be extras of some kind, and you’ll almost certainly get more of them if you order directly from RosenQueen.

Chances are, though, that they’ll run it similar to how people (at least tend to) think of them running their videogame business. They’ve already claimed that these shows are going to be limited print runs, which is what they also tend to say about their games. They like to build the assumption that, if you don’t buy their games immediately upon release, you’ll probably not be getting them as they’ll be impossible to find later. You can’t wait for the games to get cheap like the major studio releases, because they’ll no longer be available. This, of course, kind of flies counter to the way the US anime industry works, where people tend to wait for the boxsets.

I think the main reason why people switched to boxsets is the risk of ending with a half of a run. Sometimes it takes ugly forms, like my Stelliva volumes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 (and the collector's tin). But the expectation of cheap thinpacks played a role too, I'm sure.

One final note: Crunchy is known to have titles on streaming that already were available on DVDs. Grab those FLVs, folks.