I use Razor keyboards/mice for both my PCs & Macs.

I'm not a gamer but just wanted some quality equipment. I still remember when I would pay $300 for an Apple keyboards. Those keyboards were great. I don't mind investing in qualty since I can recycle the keyboard & mice when I upgrade to new hardware it is I think a good investment.
I find that the new games give me eye strain & sometimes even a headache. The type of games I can tolerate are the old games like Heroes III. All the Hero III games still run on Win 7, even though they do crash after awhile. I just make sure I save often.
Many Spore biznisses are price sensitive. In one place I worked the company was even using "evaluation" copies

Economy is now pretty bad & I doubt that many companies are willing to go through an upgrade to Win 8.