Only people with small amounts are likely to cash out their tokens at current lower levels. If it's thousands of dollars that you will be gaining by just having patience, you'll see that these people will patiently wait for their time to come. I strongly believe that the token market is heavily being bought up by BTC-E in order to not pay out in full eventually. At some point when they bought up the far majority of all the tokens in existence at far lower levels, they will happily act like they are keeping their word by buying back the remaining tokens. It's a 'game' that you should look through, and not let yourself get distracted from your end goal. The only thing people depend on, as you also pointed out, is that they remain operational.