I think some very interesting technologies have come out of the altcoin scene, and it's as good as we could have expected. I think what disappoints most is that they failed to "get rich quick", but it is that very mentality that plagues these boards, and that plagues the altcoin scene. It's killed off many coins, although the argument could perhaps be made that those coins that were innovative enough were able to ride the wave of the penny-stock pump-and-dump mentality and the singular gimmicks of bitcoin clones that are now since forgotten.

People have also grown tired of being fed each other's bullshit over buying into their bags. It's the same mentality of penny-stocks, and for every winner, there's a loser. If you want to play that game, then you're not investing in the future of cryptocurrency. You're short-term gambling.

Services and/or innovation, not gimmicks and shiny PR stunts designed to sucker in investors. This game has been long played out on the stock markets, and now the market has become saturated with altcoins. I think it's gone as well as could have been expected, really.

No altcoin is going to take Bitcoin's crown any time soon, not unless the coin suffers enough spectacular failure. Then any of the top altcoins could end up taking its place.