Originally Posted by RawAlex

TGP2 was a wonderful idea, except it was too late already. It is the same argument often made about making free sites / galleries only softcore and then upselling the surfers to hardcore.

It is a great theory, but the guy next to you is running hardcore in his galleries, and getting more traffic. Sort of like mutually assured destruction, the endless war of "who can give more" keeps growing (see the recent video galleries that give upwards to 5 minutes of free video).

Had TGP2 come before TGP, it would likely be the dominant format. Evolution says otherwise.