Ok so at this point we all know that if you brought ARR on steam then you've gotta keep buying all expansions from now on via steam (which is a giant blow to consumer rights but whatever).

In any case it's not that much of a big deal as you'll still be able to pick up both normal editions and digital CEs from Steam, just like you could for ARR. The only problem comes when you want physical goodies from the boxed versions. Now the standard edition is pretty much the disk and the instruction manual which are no big deal but the physical CEs is a HUGE thing (I mean there's a frigging awesome statue involved), and it's something that people shouldn't be excluded from simply because they choose one store over another. Hell I'm certain if when buying the game we'd been told 'all future expansions must be brought via steam' then quite a few people would have thought twice over buying ARR on steam.