You know what?  You are just a shill and yes these guys are frackin greedy bordering on thieving.  Do devs deserve to get paid, yes.  Do they deserve to rip people off, hell no.  The reason there is a decidedly negative stance on this is because people have a general sense of fairness and this is not it.

You want people to respect their hard work?  Show me what you are talking about.  Go to an investment banker, hire some attorneys and procure a prospectus and make it publicly available.  When you are asking people to fund 36 million dollars, there should be an adequate amount of due diligence available for prospective investors.  A youtube video and an advertisement on Bitcointalk forum is frackin not only hilarious its downright appalling.  You try going into a bank or venture capitalist's office and asking them for 36 million and 50% premine with absolutely no risk LMAO.  They would throw you out of the room and yet you have the gall to come on here and evangelize on why they deserve to get PAID and deserve our respect and money? Go kill yourself. Your sense of fairness is seriously warped. 

If no bank or venture capitalist in their right mind would fund this deal, why are they crowdsourcing?  Because they think coin investors are idiots.  You want respect for your work?  Go spend a few hundred thousand and hire an investment banker and attorneys to draw up a prospectus like any DECENT hardworking entrepreneurs would do that asks for 36 million plus from joe public.