Dumb people have been saying this since it came out, yes it was pre-mined, but it's actively developed and has been consistently more profitable to mine than Litecoin. Only recently has Litecoin been much more profitable, and that just changed with the bump in NVC price.

Bitch and complain all you want about it being a scam coin, but if you put an identical amount of hash power on LTC and NVC 6 months ago, your pile of NVC will be a lot bigger and worth a lot more.