Heh. I remember that, a while back, there was a game coming out (I think it might have been "Spore") and I ordered the box version...and the box arrived with no disc, just a code for downloading it online.
I was understandably grumpy.
I miss when games came with stuff. SC2 came with a fold-out map of the game's galaxy. I still have the cloth maps--yes, cloth!--that came with Ultima 5 and 6, and one of them (I think it was 5) came with this heavy coin that had the symbol of the Avatar on it.
That kind of thing. I miss that.