For the state of altcoins as they are Bytecent is a rather a success. I guess you could go off and buy some Bitbay, or a bit of Paycoin or get into a fast mover like Monero. The whole "industry" is slowly dying off and Bytecent is a winner just for not being dead yet. The dev has the usual problem of getting the real world to use the coin and isn't having much luck so far. He's trying things out though. My beloved Pandacoin is dying slowly because despite nice tech the devs haven't any business sense. IE does need to come up w/ something quick before ICO price is broken. Not sure what that might be but without it Bytecent will die but it will have been a good fight by a dedicated individual.
I don't agree it has been a "good fight". I believe it has been a very clumsy fight... that IE is losing in a hurry. He just failed to raise the community that would be able -and capable- of supporting the project, as simple as that.
It's all downhill from here.
Worse: IE has not -and will never- learned the lesson. So he will be back with other projects... and committing the same mistakes that have been the undoing of BYC. Sad.