It never fails.  Whenever I have a choice between digital distribution and a physical game, I always seem to wind up with the choice that gets me the game later.  As readers of this blog probably know, I'm a huge fan of Paradox, makers of games like Hearts of Iron and Europa Universalis.  Their latest game, Europa Universalis 3, is coming out this week.  In fact, it already *is* out if you digitally download.  But unfortunately I'd already pre-ordered the Collector's Edition straight from Paradox -- I like giving developers as much of my money as possible and I'm enough of a fanboy to really want the CE.  To top if off, I'd heard reports of them shipping the CE early, since apparently they are shipping them directly from Sweden (where Paradox is located).

Unfortunately for me I must have gotten my order in too late to have the early shipping kick in, since now I'm sitting here with no EU3 and a digital download version just mocking me...  With Burning Crusade and so many other good games available now it's not like I can really justify buying it twice to play it a few days earlier than I would otherwise... but it's tempting!