I think and hope that this mindgeek deal or cooperation with verge is the first step. There is also a cooperation deal with tokenpay ( look at tokenpay website, they seem very enthusiastic ).
if the team gets more deals it will make verge a unique coin in the crypto space and a next step in the evolution of blockchain and its future.

Obviously there are many issues which have to be sorted out to get crypto currencies mainstream. The biggest is the ease of use...which already is being adressed by the partnership/ cooperation of tokenpay/ verge.

Overall these steps are huge, unfortunately for us as investors we can not count on a huge appreciation of the worth of our coins yet. Maybe in some time, but for now i'm very surprised that it had no long term effect on the price. I expected the price to go a bit higher and drop  and rise again. It did but less than i expected.

hopefully the dev team is working on their next step and that they dont start announcing them a month before. Just announce it a week before without making a hype about it. The big expectations have the result of dissapointment. If there was no hype nobody would be discussing if mindgeek deal is a big deal or not. It is a very very big deal, unless you expected that amazon or ebay would implement xvg. Those companies will be the last to do so. They know if they even endorse a coin that coin will go to the moon, so tell me why would they do that, in the situation crypto is in now??!! They have the best coders etc they could make a coin for themselves and make a few billion by doing so