Some examples:
They say in Terms and Conditions:
The Company, which is solely responsible for conducting the Presale,
will use the proceeds of the Presale to acquire NeuCoin Tokens from the NeuCoin Foundations immediately after the the NeuCoin Tokens are initially created and the NeuCoin System is made publicly available (the Public Release), expected to occur in the summer of 2015.
The Company is not authorized to use the proceeds of the Presale for any other purpose. All the BTC raised in the presale will be kept in a publicly visible multisig Bitcoin address which will be published on
www.neucoin.org.
Private keys will be held by several members of the NeuCoin Project Team along with a representative of the Company so that the Company will not be able to transfer funds from the multisig address without the consent of the NeuCoin Project Team members. Immediately after acquiring NeuCoin Tokens from the NeuCoin Foundations, Company will distribute them to the Purchasers. If the Public Release of the NeuCoin System has not occurred by September 30, 2015 (the Release Deadline), the Company will refund all Purchasers their entire purchase amounts as described below. The Company will be liquidated shortly after either distributing NeuCoin Tokens or refunds to all Purchasers.
http://www.neucoin.org/en/terms_and_conditionsDid that happen? This is the address:
https://blockchain.info/address/3MrNuksZ1VePU3dGiSQFiouWerJUJgDkfHWTF? Yes it happened. This is not a promise to tell you exactly what they will do with every satoshi in their possession for ever more, it is an explanation of how the presale worked.
Transparency and Governance
NeuCoin will be open, accountable and ultimately controlled by coin holders. NeuCoins core code development, user growth programs, and projects to increase utility will be supported by three non-profit foundations based in Isle of Man: the Code, Growth and Utility foundations.
All foundations are ultimately controlled by NeuCoin holders (1 NeuCoin = 1 vote), who have the power to hire, fire and set compensation for the foundations Council Members, and have a right of approval on annual budgets, spending priorities and other matters. This structure makes NeuCoin more decentralized and accountable than Bitcoin, Ripple or Stellar, let alone most of the anonymous alt coins out there.
http://www.neucoin.org/en/terms_and_conditionsDid that happen? Would you say the foundations are controlled by the Neucoin-Holders? Was there a voting? Coin-Holders "have a right of approval on annual budgets, spending priorities and other matters". Would you say that's true?
This is from the strategic plan, I presume? This was clearly explained to be something that would happen after a sufficient number of coins had been distributed. There was never any intention that this should have happened by now, you've just made that up.
Or the funny fact that they did not, like promised, release a Block-Explorer right from the start! Without the unofficial one nobody would have known about the fact that >99% of all coins were in the Top 100! And that's weird because they said that there were >1000 pre-sale-Investors. But more than just 3 billion Coins in the top 100??
This is such a minor issue that is being blown up beyond all proportion. Sometimes there are delays with some things in a software project. Its not a big deal because a) there was a block explorer at launch (the unofficial one) b) there was an official block explorer soon after launch and c) you're assertion that without it nobody would know what the initial distribution was is absurd, because even a cursory look at the most basic explanation would have told you what the distribution was going to be, and it exactly followed that plan.
Yes they acted honestly, no they did not lie.
They certainly have not been open to discussion, but that is because it would have taken several people working full-time just to answer all the FUD from trolls who don't listen when things are explained to them anyway, making any discussion an exercise in futility.