By asking them to manipulate the price, you mean that you want them to spend their development budget to buy up more of their own coin, centralizing it in the process so that you and some other "investors" can sell their ARK at a higher price, right?
Then the price would fall again, ARK team wouldn't have enough development budget, the projected would die.
Is that what you're asking? Is this what an investor wants or maybe what a short-term moon-boy wants?
I would consider myself a real investor and what I want is for ARK to finish their product, start big collaborations and have many apps and games built on it. Then, I can feed from the fee profits on these services.
to tell you the true i really don't know but i really want to see ark to achieve your last paragraph, then it's not going to do any good if they're not doing anything to bring themselves to the spotlight. to do so most likely it have to do with ark price and hype. every coins i keep hearing the same over and over again and again people shouldn't worrying about the price but the developing, until it's worth noting and everyone bag their bag and gone. it's just nothing there for ark investors.
i just never understand ark have so much money and so much of their own tokens with good coding team and developing but for ark investors, it pretty damn very sad story. it just don't make any sense to me right now. they have so much resources but in term for investors it worth almost nothing.