I aquire games naughtily, if theyre good I'll buy them. For PC at least.
With consoles it's a little more difficult, especially nowadays with the concept of patching console games, I feel it's making console dev's a little lazier.
Cause the opty is just an underclocked FX-series iirc, so people who clock their Opty to 2.7Ghz are getting the same performance they would be from an FX-57, for a couple hundred less.