The cloud service was used for burst and theirs no reason to believe that wasn't/isn't its primary function.  You don't buy a miner and turn it off when its still very profitable, makes no sense.  Some burst mined were used to give the coin buy support to keep the price up just to keep it going.  Doesn't make a lot of sense the developer would communicate with you and leave the rest of the community, some of which even bought in, in the dark.