Originally Posted by Three.Thousand

Affiliates are effectively sales people. What they have to offer is time and traffic.
This has been valuable to paysite owners because a) everyone wants traffic, b) the time, for example to submit galleries to thousands of traffic sources just was just not time efficient for a program or even possible.

If affiliates have lost traffic to a handful of tubes, meaning they cant offer the traffic anymore, and as the traffic belongs to a much smaller group now, which means that the paysite owner will have the time to reach the same audience, without giving 50% of the profit to a middle man. Can you blame them for not running a charity and support middle men that bring nothing?
Sure some tubes will sign up as affiliates and get 50%, but they are at least bringing traffic to the table.

The industry has been overcrowded with people, and the evolution has now made it difficult for everyone to still stay, yet somehow most people think they are entitled to stay.