Kick has had me scratching my head for months. It's one of the few coins/tokens that has an actual working as of now use (albeit limited to the Kickico platform), but yet it has underperformed. The only rationale I can think of is it's not Kick underperforming, but rather other coins are overpriced. Think about it. Most crypto today is nothing but hype and promises, and people seem to be buying that over actual utility tokens like Kick.
That or a whale group has been keeping the price down for months.
Sometime it happens that a working software will not have much of attention from investors because it is proven to be working and the hype is gone, while the other project that is created in hype and lot of smoke promises tends to have more investors in it.
I think all investors have the same feeling that kick coin is too quiet , hope there will be more good news come out in 2018