I don’t think that the patch promise is entirely empty… I suspect that there is some hitch in the each game itself, and that the patch will be released after cracking the game is a moot point to the company. At least that’s the way it appears to work in Japan.
The liscensing agreement for V-Mate does pretty much leave the patch issue open to interpretation by the company issuing the game, although they give some ‘suggested’ parameters that indicate that an ‘average’ game company might release a patch around three years after they released a game.
Personally, I think that someone will eventually crack it anyway, but if GC wants to play with their new toy, let them.