did you install and run the game? when you run the game it will prompt you for a stardock account name this will cause you to become registered
Might not be an ACTUAL retail store, but I've paid a decent amount of money for it fair and square either way. I'm not sure how any of this is even remotely relevant to my question, though.
it was relevent to the fact that as far as the community knows galciv 3 is not a physical object and will only be released by digital distrubition. retail stores deal in physical objects and if you bought galciv 3 at a retail store then you were most likely scammed or misinformed.
however after you clarified that you bought a cd key and not a boxed game that eases our worries
Oh, my bad. Any who, when I fired up the game I don't recall it asking me for any login details. I could be wrong, though, because I don't quite remember. What I do know for 100% is that it is the Founder's Elite Edition, as Steam says it is.
Now, after submitting a ticket, someone is currently handling it and hopefully it'll get solved very soon! 
