Ripple is listed 4th in CoinMarketCap, it has a huge trading volume and lots of fans and followers.
Yes, they serve the banks and that's why some people hate them - but we have to remember our financial world wouldn't exist as it is nowadays without the banks - we can't with them and we can't without them.

In terms of value - Ripple has gone up in value since last year, and it keeps on going up.
Golem (GNT) was 70c at the peak in March-May this year (2017) and it crashed to 20c.
And Golem had lots of potential as an altcoin.

It's much more solid than Dogecoin, that's for sure, Dogecoin has gone down in value whilst Ripple has gone up as well.
And yet many faucet owners love to use Dogecoin instead of Ripple - why? We'll leave it for them to explain.

Ripple is much more solid and here to stay with us for a long time, there is no dispute of that.

We wouldn't go so quickly to "bury" one of the strongest Crypto Currencies in the world, indeed some people don't like them because Ripple collaborates with the banks - but in the end of the day - this is going to be a Crypto Currency that will last with us for a long term.

ETH or Dash are good ones as well, no doubt of that, but we preferred Ripple in this case and we are happy with this choice.

Remember - if you don't like your Ripple you can still convert the XRP you get from us to BTC, ETH, Dash or whatever you wish. Ripple can be exchanged in almost every exchange out there because it's so popular. (We recommend changelly over ShapeShift, ShapeShift has been known to scam some of its users, Changelly is much more solid and there are tons of others out there as well).