Why such a high price?

[Pocus]

yes true, any exe will be cracked in a matter of days.
to be precise, Galciv run without cd on a pc, so there is no hassle here. The filter comes when you want to download a patch.

Originally posted by Richard:
Actually they don't need ot go that far. When you issue a patch it almost always breaks whatever crack someone has used. So the approach makes sense, but I doubt you neeed to spend all of that money to setup a special setup like that.

But in the end I think we pick up more audience by folks who can use our games on their laptops easily then we loose due to pirating.