... and you will have to install all of the updates from Steam anyways.
If there are DVDs physically sitting on store shelves the build of the game is probably at least a week old. If you look at the change logs for the recent patches you will know that there will be a lot of downloading to do regardless.
The DVD doesn't have the game code on it at all, if I understand correctly. It only has assets like textures etc on it. So the DVD being in stores already has nothing to do with the age of the build which is still in development and can only be downloaded at launch.
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