I'm a westerner and I prefer owning the game, usually for the artwork the game manuals sometimes have, or the cover artwork. There's times where I wish we in the west had the same cover art as those in the east, most of the time on FF titles, because I just think the artwork looks nicer.

I like owning the physical copy of anything, really. Mostly it is for the art, hence why I bought a book that's in Russian (having read the English counterpart) just because I loved the cover art.


Currently, the only game I own a digital copy of is FFVII and that's because the physical copy is like... $240 which is waay too much, IMO. So, if the option is getting a digital game for $9.99 or $240, at that much of a gap, I'll go for the cheaper option.