Is it always the same?
The coin goes to the market and stays below ICO price?
No it's actually not super common until recently... and even now there are plenty of assets sitting at 2-5x of ICE.
or at least they're holding the ICO value
I would disagree here. Quite a lot of ICOs stay around ICO price or go below it. If you consider just the sheer mass of ICOs being presented to the market daily, how could it be otherwise?
That's why I said
until recently For the longest time (and the main reason we're now hit with a monsoon of ICOs), ICO's were a sure-thing, where you could expect at least a 3x.
Enough of that got TONS of newbies into the market, which is why bitcoin is in a bubble and no one can find proper market value for ICO assets.
For the record though, a majority of the ICOs I've been in (TRST, Lunyr, ODN) are still at at least 2x, and Lunyr only dropped briefly and hasn't since gone back down to ICO price.
I've been messing with ICO's since the DAO, which was only the 2nd major one. This pattern of crappy ICO performance fiat-wise is a newer phenomenon, in what's still a new technology/market anyway. And many are saying it's due to everyone being bullish for BTC. But I've seen various patterns now each occurring for a few months give or take. It used to be everytime bitcoin was bullish alts were bearish then for like 2 months there EVERY TIME bitcoin got bullish every other asset it seemed was going green as the noobs scrambled to get into crypto.
It's nice for the long run of crypto, but I'm telling you now bitcoin is
not worth $8,000.... no matter what anyone says about bitcoin being superior, at this point it's a first-to-market thing. Let the hip billionaires ruin bitcoin who cares but with all these ICO's now, only 1 or 2 from each category is going to make it. I'm hoping Enj is
the token people think about when they think about cryptos merging with games, but it could end up being anyone. I mostly wish that teams would account for the pricing with regards to utility, so you don't end up sitting here with 2 cent coins you paid 7 cents for.
Long term though, the second that the coins are actually utilized in real world, the growth will be natural. I'd rather see ENJ go from 2 cents to 25 cents over 2 years than what's happened to bitcoin...and I held bitcoin until I couldn't stomach it. It's no longer a novel technology, it's a get rich quick scheme. ENJ could be a way for tons of people to get into crypto who would've otherwise never gave a crap about bitcoin.
Also, would users have to buy enj and then deposit to their server/admin and it's credited as their in game stuff, or is it developers who buy tons of coins and sell them as in game items to then buy more enj?
Last year how many of the world's elite were talking shit on BTC, and now they're advising 10-25% of ones portfolio...god it's sickening.
I'm not mad ENJ isn't at ICO price, I just don't understand fully how it happened, and I'm not fully buying the whale conspiracy. It's the same one that almost every thread starts talking about when prices are 'kept down' ...