It's just that most people in altcoins have a very short focus in terms of investment horizon. When nothing happens for a few days or weeks they lose interest. It's like watching TV and getting bored with the content, wanting to change the channel. Just look at the "sentiment" in the last few pages prior to exiting beta and entering release candidate status:

1) people noticing that activity in the thread is lowered = quick to declare that the coin is dead
2) people noticing that the price trendline is slightly negative = quick to declare that the coin is dead
3) people noticing that other coins are more "interesting" with their pumps and dumps = quick to declare that the coin is dead

It is indicative of the state of affairs that even one of the most actively developed coins (bleeding edge coin) can make users with the bumblebee-syndrome get "bored".

This small raise in price cannot be considered a pump. If it goes to $5-$10 ok, it might be considered pumped. But now? These were normal price levels prior to the ccex incident. And it wasn't even done with any significant volume so it might correct (or it might not - I hope it does because I want to buy some more ) as people again lose interest until the final release, or even after final release where they'll be expecting the whole world to adopt DRK within a day or so, when this is in fact a multi-year-process (BTC adoption is still in its infancy).