I say this because 1000's of people have profited / ROI'd Via there cloud mining service when it was live, Even before paycoin was even thought of.
You are sure about "even before paycoin was even thought of"
To me it looks like it was planned before of. They had to give something those customers when they took of their hashlet pngs and disabled cloud mining and gaw needed something to make money.
Why not make an Altcoin?
Maybe they watched THIS Video before then decided to make it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIasr2AiyZ0(pls watch hehe)
They were mining hashpoints instead.
I can not believe all that was decided day-to-day basis. Someone must have known all the pieces of the "Masterplan".