That's true Dongchi, during the first months of Auroracoin things went crazy, especially on the speculators side. Price was driven up to extreme hights and could only go down hard. This had nothing to do with the plan of the developer though and was even damaging to the project.
Al lot has changed since then (more than 2 years ago now). A new dev-team took over and the initiator kept his word all the way to destroying the remainder of the premine after the three airdrop phases were completed.
We now have an official foundation based in Reykjavik and we are running real life marketing and promotion in Iceland. So much more has happend besides that and even more is to come!
It's good to see all the great effort you all are putting on this