The Piratebaycoin is still to launch and is in private development.
The Darkcoin dev, Evan Duffield, took 2 years off work to focus 100% on developing.
I'm 50/50 about VTR at the moment. When the bills come in every month they still need to be paid. What do you do, focus on VTR, paying the bills or try and do the day job while fitting in VTR?
That's seems to be the issue, from what I can tell.
We can all make demands and set out our high expectations. But we don't want to pay for the process.