I don't know if anyone else here has seen this retirement post from G.R.
Here is a link if you fancy giving it a read but be prepared for a wall of text
http://www.dww.at/dww/information/about_EmotionalE.asp. I would like to hear other peoples thoughts on this.
I myself have given it a quick read and overall it seems to be half self pity and half venom aimed at vaguely defined enemies, but I'm not here to comment his personal problems no the part that grabbed my attention was this particular section:
"If someone wants to purchase “DWW et al” or just part of our products, so then please contact me. But if there is no offer at a reasonable but realistic price then I’m going to throw it all in the dump or just destroy it, because for the sake of my life I’ll need a new start from scratch, as hard and sad that might sound for many of you. The current muddling plunges me even deeper into a mental hole and if that continues for much longer then it’ll be me who’s going to end up in the dump.
Those who want to help and those who are still feeling some gratitude and who want to support me and DWW and those who want to have all our content because they don’t want to miss it, can do so by accepting my offer, namely being able to download everything by getting unlimited downloads or alternatively getting everything on a hard drive (the latter for EU customers only). That would help me and DWW a lot and finally it would make some hope and confidence. By the end of December this website will continue to exist with its current content. From January 2015 pretty much of that content will get removed forever. If nobody would like to purchase the rights then this content will end up in the dump and it’ll never be seen again and it’ll never return. Therefore this is the last chance for you to download and to get still all of the currently available videos.
What happens to the thousands of still unreleased and unseen videos that were produced earlier than 2006. What happens to the still unreleased videos on tapes that are waiting for digitization? Honestly, I don’t know. If that sale succeeds and if there will be a financial basis – perhaps made possible with all your help, support and due to your still existing interest - then I'll try to release some of the unreleased ones during the following 6 months. Especially from the period prior to 2006 there are many great videos available. Missing those would be a pity. However, I cannot promise anything at all regarding the release of unreleased videos, simply because I don’t know about how my health situation is evolving. I had desperately tried doing that before summer and even announced that as you know very well, but once you start to have optimistic plans, often the “ax hits your neck the next day” - and finally my health prohibited for that plan being fulfilled."
Now I first discovered tribgirls back in 2011 and thus came in pretty much as the site went into decline, over the course of a year I watched as the new releases dried up and G.R. became argumentative on his forums when customers complained about delays and him telling us about new releases only to release scenes that had been made years before but just had never been put up on the site before. The final nail in the coffin for the site was when the forums where closed in late 2012 and several topics were deleted, over the last few years I have every so often checked back with tribgirls in the hopes that at least G.R. might release the remaining content that he has in the film database, with hopes of picking up some scenes that I like the look of.
But now we have this statement in which he states he'll destroy all this unreleased content he has, but why? Why hold onto this stuff that over the years he could of made plenty of sales off, instead he has held on to it for years never making any money and now wants to destroy it if no one buys it all in one go for a large amount of money. I just cant believe this behavior it seems just so childish. Anyway I hope some does pick up his back catalog and makes it available for purchase, if I had the funds myself I would take him up on this "offer" but as it is I dont and will be very sad that he is going to destroy something that I enjoy so much.
Oh well I guess all I can say is shit happens.
Edit: omg just had a look at the film database on Tribgirls, he has 70 scenes all just sitting there doing nothing but gathering dust this is just lame