They took a bank loan for a shitty demo, and they will do it again until they are bankrupt. Great idea!

There are local models that run on 8GB or less. That would make much more sense here, every gaming PC from the last decade has that amount of vram.

Running it on cloud is insanely stupid. I wonder if they published the keys for the cloud account in the game binary?

Just wait until people start reverse engineering AAA games.