I apologize for my dumb question.. Just preordered d3 online.. Downloading it now and bnet says I can play it once it's launched? Are they still going to ship me a CD and such? Slightly confused here. Thanks in advance.

Naw, it's an online DL, no cd.

Yeah, big companies push for pre-order downloads now so they can still charge the price it takes to press and package their games and not pass on the savings to their consumers. When ever you pre-order if you are looking to get a CD copy order from gamestop/best buy/wal-mart, etc. Never the company that makes it as it will only be a download copy, unless you go with a collectors Ed.