@metaldog564 Your right. Competition. The issue is that high competition drives down profit margins. When it comes to grey semi-illegal online translation community it's even a bigger issue. First your large amount of work could just go up in smoke because someone else has done the same work but faster/maybe better.
An example would be, I'm hungry. I order delivery from 3 different burger joints. The classic family restaurant down the street makes the best food, I'm most looking forward to. However the McDonald's further away delivered first. I'm full now. When the other two deliver, I turn them away because I can't eat anymore (Real shit move). So what do they do? Well they toss it. Now they've lost out on their hardwork, inital cost and profit from the sale. Did I enjoy the McDonald's the most? No, but because they were the fastest and I'm far too impatient to wait for what I really wanted I end up eating their product.
Translation groups be the same. Eventually when you see all the hard work you put in resulting in zero success, you stop working on that project. Long term? McDonald's decides that delivery to my area is not worth the hassle for the low profits, and stops the service. Too bad for me, the other two burger joints have closed down. Now they're replaced with a Chinese restaurant and a kebab place.