I love 'Physical' but only just a little bit more... Because I like to collect the games "Boxes" and 'Physical' games are something I can touch, it's a good feeling you can't get with 'Digital' version. That's why If the physical is just a box with code I won't love it as much as... say a 3DS Game Card (still even the box worth the bragging right).
But I'm more likely to buy 'Digital' these days, because I live in Libya and the prices of "non-hacked" games recently sky-rocketed here, and Buying 'Physical' from outside the country comes with huge shipping cost.... 'Digital (non-cracked) Version' is more convenient to get if you have a Credit Card (which in Libya is something hard to get).
While the Gaming Community in Libya is Huge, %99 of Gamers are playing Cracked Games (they cost $1 or less for us, when you see everyone play them you get so tempted).
My Country is one of the few Countries that Game Making Companies don't care about... If they started to care about us, maybe I'll try to convince more Gamers here to buy the original version. But now... the only reason I buy Original/non-hacked games, and use services like steam is because as a Gamedev I know how hard is to create a game and I want to support the devs I like when I can.
Man it sounds tough being a gamer in Libya, thank you for sharing and supporting the developers. It's true that Game developers only care about certain countries. This is a bad thing because there is a lot of opportunity they are missing out on. Great to see you developing games, we need more people like you making indie games. I hope that you get to make your success game. Steem on!
I feel that if Game Companies published their games in Libya.. they will earn from us more than they earn from other some Countries, but assuming 2 things:
IF they make their games easily purchasable with LYD (Libyan Dinar as Cash)
IF they don't sell them in a price more than 30 LYD per Game (That's about $10 for a game that will sell normally at $40 in USA)
Most people in the important age group (15-25 yrs old) in Libya have time for gaming in their daily or weekly life. Gaming Companies lose many potential sales by not caring about us.
maybe I should expand on this and make it a full post.