huge discount was not effective anymore in project, many investors affraid if by this huge discount price will dumped by whales investors.
Agreed, that's why some investors didn't even like the project that was using the big discount to attract the buyers. They were thinking this scheme was a shady scheme right now.
The real investors didn't even care about how much that will be paid as long as the project was fully active and it can make them all money in the future.
People just realized it after these scheme used by scammers to sell their garbage tokens.