Nope, its pretty dishonest to use someone else's reputation for your own benefit.
It isn't just dishonest, it is a criminal act, particularly when your 'own benefit' is in convincing people to give you money.
However the track record of this dev team gives me confidence that we will get a functioning dice site and major exchange launch in the future.
A functioning dice site and major exchange?
Think what you are saying. A dice site founded by people who knowingly misled investors, using bought(shogdite) and stolen(phoenix1969) accounts. These are facts an exchange would quickly become aware of during the application process. Facts which no major exchange would tolerate for a coin they are being asked to host.
As for the dice site, who do you think is going to want to use an online platform put together by proven fraudsters?
Seriously. Think about it.
As for all the ludicrous screeching about FUD, cheapcoinsnomnom and mooooooon, this is the just the typical tactic by the organised fraudsters behind most of these shady setups from altcoins to platforms. Do you think they just stick to one deception? No they'll have multiple sock-puppet accounts to quickly try and steer the thread into ad hominem and bullshit in their desperation to muddy the waters of the discussion around the deception.