Now of course, they regret not having the whole physical != Steam business for DOS having thought through.
I placed my order for the CE box a few days ago and now I'm torn between going ahead with it and getting a refund. I hate game clients. Will the disk copy be tied to your steam account when you're updating it or will it simply update it without tying it to your account? I would've preferred a direct download link to the day 1 patch. They could also just write a no-steam installer which takes the disk as the source and installs the game, if such a thing is possible. We can then update the game manually.
In that case, this will be my last Larian purchase.