Yes

Yes

Depends on the game

yes

yes

maybe.  -- I don't think 32/64 bit influences my buying decisions.  Improved performance is always nice but buying a game for me is never a question of how well it runs, but whether the game looks interesting to play.  Choosing between games isn't an issue for me as money isn't the issue either (rather, time is).  This naturally precludes such a scenario where a 64 bit version of a game would work on my system whereas a 32 bit version would not (in which case I obviously wouldn't purchase the 32 bit version).

Another "yes, yes, maybe" here.  Really, I care more about the quality of the game than I do about the computing capabilities.  If the 64-bit architecture is used intelligently in order to improve upon the game's design, then definitely yes.  If it's just to make things look nicer or run a little faster, I don't care as much.

There was a debate about 32-bit/64-bit and what affects it had on games and the difference wasn't too much but I am using Windows 7 64-bit on both my desktop and laptop. I play games now and then. I wouldn't buy a game just because it's 64-bit aware.

Yes Yes and No.

64-Bit awareness is great, but wont help in deciding what games i buy.

NO

YES

NO*

*Lets be clear here.. are we talking a separate 64 bit .exe or the whole game requiring a 64bit OS? If it requires a 64 bit OS then I wouldn't buy it since I couldn't play it, and no game is worth the extra 200$ OS upgrade cost.

If i were running a 64 bit system then it might pique my interest more to see how the game actually makes use of the extra resources but I wouldn't buy a game just because it was 64 bit aware.

Yes

Yes

If something is 64 bit aware wouldn't be the first ting I'd look at when deciding to buy a game.

Yes...and yes...and maybe??  For example, I'd probably still buy GalCiv3 even if it wasn't 64 bit...but I'd wonder why the developers made such a decision, and my willingness to try out another Stardock game that takes me out of my comfort zone would be severely lessened...

Yes.

Yes.

No, I buy games because they are good, not because they are 64bit aware.

Yes

Yes

No, makes no sense, some pretty good games use very few resources. After all I'm buying a game and not a hardware requirement. But if the game demands it..

1. No. However, I am running 64-bit Linux! I also have 64-bit Windows on another partition, but I haven't launched it for three months now. There is not much Windows can do that Linux cannot.

2. Yes. Most through Wine, however. That's why I'd be very interested in native Linux games.

3. Definitely. And it doesn't matter if it brings more optimisations or not. What people fail to understand is that Windows will outright drop 32-bit support in the future. Already 32-bit apps are emulated, and in the future, they will only be played through a virtual machine or an emulator, like DOS games are nowadays. Besides, compiling a game for 64-bit targets is not difficult. At least with GCC, although Linux had complete 64-bit support for years now (there is not a single 32-bit app being run on my computer right now). I hear the 64-bit compiler support on Windows is quite a bit worse, however.

Yes

Yes

Yes