Who wants PGI back?

[SabreWolf]

I agree that Not having PGI is a loss to paintball, its what introduced me to paintball back when I was 12 back in 90-91 when I was doing what most kids that age did in super markets, while the parents were shopping, and that was looking at the magazine section, which is where I first came across paintball.

 

[Al Woods]

Anyone seen this beauty?

Looks good with stunning shots. Not very informative and a bit poetic but that exactly what it is. Enjoy:

http://issuu.com/inthemiddlemagazine/docs/issue4#download

 

[Robbo]

If paintball started making the sort of money it once did in terms of ad revenue from the States, then I think Matt Tudor [Owner of PGi and about 25 other mags] would maybe think about bringing it back but I cannot see that ever happening again.
When we started out in 1990, the UK industry just about kept the PGi ship afloat: Back then, we used to have 15 or so retail outlets and quite a few industry people who all advertised in PGi.
When the domestic market hit rock-bottom in about 96 or so, we had a decision to make.
The only way the magazine could stay alive was to go international and embrace the US in our editorial; that move alone saved PGi from the paintball dead-box.
Mind you, some people were blabbing we had 'sold out' because the focus of the magazine had shifted westward and they weren't able to read their team names in the S****horpe five man anymore.
The fact that we couldn't have survived if we had remained focused on the UK seems to have escaped these critics but that failed to dissuade them.
We covered all the big UK and European events as well as the Yank stuff and so there really wasn't that much to bitch about, but bitch they did.
There has also been a seismic shift in reading media which for a lot of the young people now seems to have taken residence on the net with digital magazines being the order of the day though I agree, there's something missing when you are reading off a screen as against something in your hand.
The question isn't really if PGi is coming back or not, it's much larger than that, it's whether or not this trend toward internet-based media continues and I believe it's inevitable it will.
PGi is dead, long live the ....... er ....... erm ...... monitor? ...

 

[Al Woods]

Thanks for the reply big man, it been a while. Gotta admit myself and our little ban of brothers were big fans of the mag and big fans of the stateside coverage, who else you gonna learn from right? Aspiration is a wonderful and powerful thing to have in your soul, just a shame life often gets in the way.

I kinda know the mag just cannot come back. I'm pally with the editor of a very popular VW magazine and even they fight hard to fill the pages and keep peeps interested, and the VW scene is very mainstream and huge cross the globe. Paintball isn't.

Just nice to chat about these things again, back on the scene for a bit so wanna feel the old school love all over again.

Good to hear from you bruiser, see ya soon.

 

[MorphMann]

As said before the prob is that we are now in the 21st century.

I have always loved reading books but, because it's easier I read them all on my mobile now as a digital format.

I first got into Paintball about 1992 and brought all the mags. And remember shoving my nose in the pages walking home and reading what the Predators etc had done that month.

The thing is that we are not still in that era. You want any form of media now and you can try to pay for it at the newsagent, or spend few mins on Google and find what you want.

Say a new company decides to release a magazine. Somebody will put it on line in the same way that Movies and Music is and the mag will go under.

 

[semtexuk]

Was utterly gutted when on my recent return to paintball I popped into the local whsmiths to find only airsoft mags( of which a choice of 10 or so) to then be informed that there were 0 paintball mags available on subscription, please bring back the mags!!! I love the internet but....its just not the same....

 

[Vegard]

I'd love for PGI to return! Reading online just isn't the same.

 

[Robbo]

I'd love for PGI to return! Reading online just isn't the same.

We won't be resurrecting PGi this side of the next galactic expansion, the magazine world has been devastated by the modern market place because not only has our demographic changed but people basically live their life in front of a keyboard now instead of the old way of sitting on the bog with a magazine to peruse.
Matt Tudor, the guy who owned all the magazines at Aceville Publications would probably love to bring it back if the market changed but magazine revenues were severely cut when the recession hit, along with people's on-line habits.
Our revenue was cut by something like 80% in the space of just over a year, no publication in the world can take that sort of hit - and as we know, the vast majority of other paintball titles were already in the dead-box waiting for us when we pulled the plug, sad but true.

Bon came up with an idea which we will be investigating but until we have something solid in place, it's not really worth mentioning.
PGi RIP ....

 

[mrb2287]

We won't be resurrecting PGi this side of the next galactic expansion, the magazine world has been devastated by the modern market place because not only has our demographic changed but people basically live their life in front of a keyboard now instead of the old way of sitting on the bog with a magazine to peruse.
Matt Tudor, the guy who owned all the magazines at Aceville Publications would probably love to bring it back if the market changed but magazine revenues were severely cut when the recession hit, along with people's on-line habits.
Our revenue was cut by something like 80% in the space of just over a year, no publication in the world can take that sort of hit - and as we know, the vast majority of other paintball titles were already in the dead-box waiting for us when we pulled the plug, sad but true.

Bon came up with an idea which we will be investigating but until we have something solid in place, it's not really worth mentioning.
PGi RIP ....

All understandable but still a massive shame. I always have a stack of mags in the bog just no paintball mags

 

[Robbo]

All understandable but still a massive shame. I always have a stack of mags in the bog just no paintball mags

Paintball changed ... I'm not really sure if it's for the better or worse but somewhere along the road, we lost our soul, I know that much to be true.