Should i quit paintball

If you buy decent paint, you are almost spending 50 cents per second. If you at a field, you might be spending 2 dollars per second. And many of these shots wont even come close to the target! Ive even seen people sit behind a bunker and spray their hopper dry in just a few minutes. They also dont hit anyone, and the people they are shooting at dont get to shoot at anyone.

Neither player really gets anything out of that. The other major problem with this sport is greed. Fields in my area used to earn a profit off of paint and I expect them too. It's not surprising that many fields in my area have closed down when they try to charge this much. My old paintball stores are in absolute disrepair. Many of these guys dont even stock new guns. If you ask for new parts, they hand you used parts, and then claim they are new. These stores are so starved for customers they now they resort to horrible business practices just to stay afloat.

And then you have the paint gun, parts, etc companies who just rip off the customers left and right. The lies spread in advertisements and on the web make me cringe. They tell these kids they need part x, part y, and part j. The kids spend this money for parts they dont need, and then big surprise, their parents start balking at the cost of this sport and the kid leaves the market.

Ive seen this happen over and over again. They glorify these guns that many cant afford, and if you dont have this class of gun, you cant even compete. We are not talking about CEO's who have thousands of dollars to spend on greens fees and new graphite drivers, these are kids who parents cant or usually just wont dump extremely large amounts on their kids latest thing. Whoever is running the marketing for these companies should have had a wake up call years ago.

You guys have seriously lost the path. You make a quick buck off of someone, they leave, and its like no one even notices the money walking out the door. Just about every friend I bring out paintballing enjoys it, but they cant believe how expensive it is. I have heard that for more than 10 years. When you top this off with fully automatic guns that kill the games, crooked store owners, and greedy field owners, I'm not surprised this sport is dying out in my area.

Am I the only one who has sees this happening? Originally Posted by soren I started playing paintball more than 10 years ago.

Posts Kids want these super guns, and i own one, but i use it to compete. Many other guns, new or used will still fire at these insane rates of fire, e spyders, the new ION, used angels, used matrixes.

Same with older styled matrixes. Thats a deal Paintball is really growing. As a spectator sport, it is still in its youth. Really, who is the game for? Originally posted by Tom in reffrence to a post saying he acted like my dad Team Icky Forest-Shatnerball !!! I too played in the olden days of pumps and put the game down only to come back to the era of "E".

I don't have a problem with it. As far as advertising goes, what company doesn't try to up-sell you? If your into paintball do some research on the equipment before you buy.

I remember having to buy equipment from some tournament player in his basement before paintball stores really emerged in the area. I remember driving an hour to go to a store. There are also plenty of on-line stores too choose from.

Skip that shoddy store. There are better options out there. All of the fields I attend divide walk-on teams by fire power. If you really need it, book a private game.

Lastly it seems that so many people don't appreciate how the sport has evolved. Speedball, Hyperball etc. To end this up I will use an analogy.

When I go to a ski resort there are many types of terrain. I can choose beginner through expert, and if I want I can try and go huge in the terrain park. You will need the best equipment you can get in the terrain park. You can't expect to rule the mountain as a beginner. You shouldn't really consider going into a terrain park without good equipment and some experience.

If you fall and hurt yourself in there, remember that the park is set up for competitive riding. Paintball is fun. Take it one step at a time. Stay on the appropriate field for your skills and style of play. I started playing when it was pump only and the jump to semi's was interesting and the stuff they have out there now just amazes me. The cost of paint has dropped alot. My problem is not with the equipment but the ppl that are using the equipment. Playing rec ball with some of these wanna be tourney players drive me up the wall.

Wiping, bonus balling, blind firing and other general cheating methods in a rec game is completely unacceptable. There is no prize. I look at it this way: You have two options- 1 complain about how the sport is sliding downhill because of 20 bps guns, or 2 adapt to the new playing styles and deal with it.

When I first started playing at organized fields, I was a little intimidated by the fast electros. Now, even the fastest electros don't phase me.

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