>>OpenOffice releases torrents for instance.

As do many opensource apps including some flavours of Linux.

These days, if I want something and dont want to shell out cash for it I look around for an open source alternative. And with games I agree that they are cheap enough and available everywhere

The only app I feel I really have to buy is Excel as I use it more than anything else due to my job. The openoffice version is fine, but most of the features of Excel are second nature to me now so I always end up buying it in some form or other.