I have also experienced the same thing as you have experienced, at first I was sincere if my coins were ultimately worthless and useless, but my friend told me that if old coins could be swapped into new coins, I also looked for this information through my official social media coin, like telegram and twitter , then finally I managed to do the swap.
to avoid big looses from missing information like this , you have to follow to telegram group or other chat group. its very usefull to get an important update from dev team. maybe if you dont get this information maybe deadline will missed and you permanently loss your money.