Why are all the Monero guys in here talking about DASH? This thread is about the questionable XMR launch. Let's stay on topic.
So the fastmine/high initial emission of XMR, combined with the refusal to create an official GUI wallet for easy public use does seem very scammy.
Also, the Monero devs claim they didn't know about the scam miner they were pushing off on the public. If that is true, what other parts of their copy/paste coin do they not understand?
It's one thing for novices to copy (well known) bitcoin, but copying something like bytecoin that is brand new, a scam, and includes fraudulent code is pretty irresponsible.
Smooth or one of the other Devs can talk about what happened at the launch, but the lack of GUI is one of the least scammy things ever- The Monero Devs are wise to build the coin, then the wallet, and then market it.
The reason to make it harder to use (by not having an official GUI) is to keep the coins for insiders, and wait to release the official GUI until after coin emission has drastically slowed, which is exactly what is happening.