I think the team is deliberately pushing down the price, to buy back as much tokens as possible sold during ico.
This way, when the platform gets released, the tokens will increase massively in price and they will profit.
This theory would mean that the team knows they are working on something very substantial and worthwhile and should then only be an incentive to hold on to your CS.
I personally believe they are simply not very skilled in PR and communication. It has been a problem since the very beginning of their ICO announcement.
The Russians are notorious for this kind of nonsense. They are trained to communicate with symbols and propaganda, not verbally, because you don't dare do that. If you speak, you'll get thrown in jail, so it's better to say nothing, or only nice things. That's why they're banning so many people on Telegram. Credits is like a miniature Russian state.
The only positive, I see, is something Ivan on Tech said in one of his recent broadcasts. He said that in terms of the Hackathons he's attended in Europe, the Russians almost never lose.
Russian Students Win International VisionHack Hackathon - http://en.misis.ru/university/news/5-100/2017-09/4861/So you can't dismiss their lack of communication as the nail in their coffin. They may indeed produce the product of the future through shear technical ability; and for that reason alone, they're worth a gamble in my book.