First mover advantage is huge. You think a newly released vertcoin clone is going to go up to vertcoin's market cap?
It doesn't work like that.
In the same way Mintcoin is trying to copy the blackcoin multipool concept but it's generated nowhere near the same level of hype. And Blackcoin also has a very active developer. He's not a cut and run developer out to make a quick buck.
are you saying BC is a clone of vertcoin? lol

No he is talking about Execoin and all those scrypt-N coins that now want to have a piece of the vertcoin cake. And there we clearly see the first mover advantage we have here too.
I am also doubtful about the progressive interest rate they use, seems that they have a fair initial distribution like BC but in the first year the early adopters create 25% more coins out of nothing. Thats not really fair.