There is trolling everywhere in this topic. Pure Speculation. Like as if the readers are plain stupid. Like as if all those who have put their money on Ripple are just naive kids who have been misled by the evil Ripple devs.
Yep, since 2013.
"They" have beat down ripple/xrp all the way from $0.006 to $0.40 then back down to $0.25.
While lurkers, who have accumulated over the last 4 years, are looking ahead to 2018/2019.
Some are against everything ripple stands for and would rather miss a 10000% return in a 5 year span (March 2017-March 2022) than provide liquidity/value to Ripple Inc by buying xrp. Others just don't think ahead of tonight's dinner.
Some are just here to feed their kids.