The price is lower because, middlecoin and other switching pools are currently mining and autosell Doge. So all Shibe's must have some patience until the block halving occurs.... Can't Dogecoin dev do any thing about this...?
Unfortunately not, the main purpose of DogeCoin was to get a few in the hands of many, obviously there will be a few hands with many coins too.
It's a coin for the masses and really cheap to get some, I think this is the main reason why so many services are coming online for Doge so quickly as more people have a invested interest in it.
It's strength is also it's weakness and out of all the alt coins on the exchanges right now this one has the greatest potential for profts at these prices but you have to buy now and
wait wait wait ...
My advice is put in money you don't need back right away.
Just to add the volumn on Cryptsy has come down by 50% since a few days ago which means more people are wanting to hold instead of selling.
