Why wouldn't a player who is willing to pay for better performing paint just pay for a .68 cal ball?
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True, but I expect there will be plenty of people making the switch to ensure fiddy cal will have a future. I also expect 68s to be around for quite some time yet.
Unless fiddy cal will be "enforced" on the tournament scene by having all the sponsored teams switch to that standard, we might even see sort of a divide between tournament and recplayers, with the latter shooting A LOT more fiddy cal than the first. At the moment that is after all what it seems to be aimed at anyway. I mean, the company is called GI MilSim for a reason...
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I think tourney ballers need a short sharp reminder of just how small a percentage of paintballers they actually represent. Fiddy cal doesn't NEED tourney ballers yet it is still catering to them.
[qoute]Having sold more paint than most teams will go through in a lifetime, I can safely say that the avarage Joe Recballer just wants cheap paint to have fun with. Sure there are exceptions to this rule, but Joe Recballer does not frequent this forum. He also[/quote]
I agree that your Joe Recballer will only want a cheap paint to have fun with... but why does that mean they'll go for 50cal? They're the least likely demographic to buy it in my opinion. They won't want to spend more money when they've already got a 98, they're also the most likely group to stick with whats tried and tested. So really that milsim 50cal stuff ought to be accurate for the milsimmers, not the recballers that won't use it.
Maybe I'm alone but I'm a scenario player and I always go for the good paint. If I had a 50 gun I'd get the 50 tourney paint too.
I agree that your Joe Recballer will only want a cheap paint to have fun with... but why does that mean they'll go for 50cal? They're the least likely demographic to buy it in my opinion. They won't want to spend more money when they've already got a 98, they're also the most likely group to stick with whats tried and tested. So really that milsim 50cal stuff ought to be accurate for the milsimmers, not the recballers that won't use it.
Maybe I'm alone but I'm a scenario player and I always go for the good paint. If I had a 50 gun I'd get the 50 tourney paint too.
You'd have a point if it weren't for the fact that Joe Recballer is also the group with the largest number of new additions to the game. And they are easily drawn into the new standard. All it takes is a salesman.
I'm a tournie player that is buying a .50 cal micro to give it a shot, to let others see for themselves and to be able to run around the field with no pots on some occasions just a full hopper. On other occasions I will revert to using my .68 Ego. I have a choice and there are many opinions on here that are shouting one way or the other..
I will be using both calibres and for a while will be able to comment from experience and not conjecture.
I will be using both calibres and for a while will be able to comment from experience and not conjecture.
Can't tell you yet. At this moment I have never used any Fiddy Cal, top range or el cheapo paint, nor are there a lot of guns available yet.
And not knowing any better is a bit of an overstatement I'd hope. I'm pretty sure that anybody with half a brain will realise that the gun that costs as much as a small country's GNP will more likely than not outperform a made in China piece of plastic you got free with a coupon.
So let's just call them less demanding people.