The project will be quickly forgotten if it stops working indefinitely. OPTHERIUM is active and it is being discussed, so this is interesting.
Yes, a lot of good projects will not be implemented. But I think that this is not bad, as there will be projects that duplicate many ideas when the market got rise.
In order for investors to start investing actively in ICO again there must be several factors:
- increase in prices for cryptocurrencies
- confidence that your investment will bring profit
The product must be usefull and investors must see the future of the product. The time of speculations ended in 2017.