viajero, yes, I think you took it out of context. Steve appears to be talking about the gaming community in general, paying for "patches". Regardless, Steve has clarified this in other threads, and the key in Steve's comment is this:
"On our side we get freed up to make other stuff, we get some revenue from the Upgrade itself to put towards the next game, and avoids the "race to the bottom" price discounting for prior releases whenever a new one comes out."