I don't find it sad at all really. These things take time. I think some people are can be impatient, rather than looking down the road a bit.  I am loyal to VTC...  got in early as a miner and investor, so its been very difficult watching it shoot up in that one initial 24 hour period, and then start falling fast the next day after the panic selling began. Over the course of the last several weeks value has continued to drop, and for a while we were at a stable bottom. However in the last 2 weeks we have reached new lows and only in the last 36 hours are we finally seeing any turnaround. I continued mining VTC until the difficulty was too high a few weeks ago and the value continued its fall- at that point I started mining other alts (including EXE). I feel strongly enough about EXE that I even sold off 500 VTC and purchased EXE several days ago. (of course my value now fell by about 60-70%) But I feel very strong for both VTC and EXE for the long haul. (& have no plans to dump that loss- I am confident it will rise again)

I am only in this game since end of Dec 2013., but if I had to forecast what lies ahead: I will continue mining VTC for now... but at some point in the near future I imagine many more miners will be switching rigs to VTC as the ASIC technology becomes available and takes over the scrypt mining. It will not take long for difficulty of VTC to see major increases, and at that point, I will happily switch over to EXE and ride that train as long as I can as well. I think EXE is well positioned with a nice head start to gain traction before other similar coins are launched. It is true that VTC has a very solid community and pro-active developers- so EXE cannot expect the market to be handed to them... the community must grow as well!