Not sure what you are looking for with this post but if it's opinions then here's my two cents worth
I want the availability to purchase a game where I actually get the said hard product, not just download capability. Yes, the feature of being able to download the game from the website is great. But I don't want the inconvenience of it. Not everyone has high speed internet access, so Frogboy should be thinking of said things when deciding on his marketing strategy for the expansion or future games. I do believe that you can buy online and receive a CD in the mail. I do hope that is the case, and I hope that it won't take three to six weeks (or even months) to receive said hard copy once purchasing online. I posted on this before and don't recall seeing a response regarding my preorder and how long it will take for CD's to be available (heck, I'll even send you guys one if it speeds things up). So I guess the gist of my response is, I would rather be able to purchase a hard copy versus download only, as downloads can be unreliable (as Stardock has said more than once) and after spending six hours downloading, I don't need to find an error with files, as has happened to me three times already when downloading both from SDC and this site (although I think this site gave a better download time than SDC, go figure).

Thanks for the clarification and the comment!

My purpose, besides ranting, was to draw attention to the ambiguity of the poll question. The first time, I read the question I thought that I should answer "online", i.e. I thought that the aim of the question is to find out whether I prefer to buy the games "physically" or do I use internet to order games. Reading the question again I got doubts because I recalled various journal entries about digital distribution. BTW, the company from where I bought the game has only on-line stores. It escapes me why I should consider their site "a store" and Stardock's digital distribution site "online". It seems that they are both stores and both function online. In short, the question is misleading: if you want to know whether we bought a digital copy or "hard" copy you should ask this and not about store/online.

First the polls are exploitable. (No I'm not posting the exploits unless asked by Stardock.)

I have voted at Atari, CDG, CNN, Fox, and many other websites that have polls.
(one person one vote, even if you delete your cookie log on or off ect.)

Stardocks poll system is the worst I have ever seen in all my days on the internet.

I take all of these polls as "a grain of salt." There not even really usable for statistical purposes.

I bought GalCiv2 in a store and am hoping these polls get the expansion into a store.
I just want to go down the street go to EB buy with Cash. Why don't you just buy shelve space for Frys and EB? Do you have to buy shelve space from BestBuy ect.? (and all the rest.)

I got mine from Wally world(Wal*Mart). I prefer getting them from a store than online because its tangible proof, and I don't have to wait an eternity to dl it. Like the time I was a beta-tester for WoW. I have cable and it took 24 hours to download it!

I saw the box in Walmart and went, "Oooh, shiney". So, I bought it

All kidding aside, it's nice to have the box, makes you feel like you got something. Also, there's a really nice tech poster in the boxed version that has come in handy a few times.

Otherwise, you're not really saving yourself any hassle. With the boxed version, you still need to D/L the latest version so it's not download free, but I suppose it's nice to have the original release on CD.

I agree the poll is ambiguous at best (I don't set them!). I'll ask the higher-ups in the morning if we can get it clarified so we actually have a useful result...