There are people getting there XCP out of there blockchain.info wallet were it was burned and dumping them. They are suppressing the rise in the price. Mastercoin is better in price because they were "first". They spent a lot time hyping it up without doing anything and MSC can also be easily manipulated to sustain the price. Not all but some people are using XCP as another coin to frantically make quick money because it's still above initial investment. I wouldn't even classify it as a coin. I'd call it a tool to unlocking crypto currencies true potential. That would separate and maybe make Counterparty stand out from anything else. I feel what could make or break anything is all in the marketing. I went a little off topic from your post but what im trying to say is everything that is superior in Counterparty needs to be pushed all throughout bitcoin media. Mastercoin did that a lot in late 2013 and I think Counterparty should get prepared to do a little more because it's sometimes hard for any product to become widely used and excepted among common people by just being superior without a little shouting from the roof tops in my opinion.

That's all just my two cents