Related article about how it works: https://ai.satyajit.si/articles/gta5-in-the-browser

And it even comes with the GTA-6 map..

Unfortunately it locked up after about 2 minutes.

82% freeze?

Stuff like this basically means high budget games will become always live services with intrusive checks and lots of streamed encrypted content etc. starting next year or so.

A tragic loss of consumer surplus and incredibly inefficient in terms of resources, bandwidth and people’s time.

It’s sad but it seems inevitable at this stage.