loads of people selling up ?
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I hear that Bagpuss dude.
It is true it is an expensive sport, but always has been. If you fish around you can get some decent deals.
I think a lot of it is there is new kit coming in pretty quick so marker H***S like me get a new one and sell it in a few months/weeks. If you look at a lot of kit going up it is quite new.
It is true it is an expensive sport, but always has been. If you fish around you can get some decent deals.
I think a lot of it is there is new kit coming in pretty quick so marker H***S like me get a new one and sell it in a few months/weeks. If you look at a lot of kit going up it is quite new.
Main problem is paint, The better you want to do, usually the more paint you shoot. And thats where it can get pricey!
OK, why don't one of you guys explain how Politics in paintball has caused people to start selling up. Thats the most ridiculous thing I've heard for a while.
also - people selling up because they can't get sponsorships? Thats bollocks too. If its too expensive, fine, but quitting because you can't get anyone else to pay for it is just selfish indulgence, not a valid reason in any way.
Perhaps people are selling up because of the new breed of player emerging. Twats like Tommeh, who have no respect for the game. Perhaps people are just getting put off it all by the way the cheats and whiners spoilt their fun? I think they are far more plausible reasons than:
'Politics are strangling the game' - utter tosh
"Cause if you're not sponsored it costs a fortune' - get real.
In any industry, companies have to sell product. There are now more products, cheaper, and better, than ever before. There are also more opportunities for players to get some sort of industry support than ever before, as there are more companies to approach. Paint is cheaper, guns are cheaper, gear is cheaper. This alone makes the above 2 comments worthless. I mean what has politics got to do with it? Blame yourselves you fools, before it's too late. Quit blaming everyone else and take a long look at yourselves. You look ridiculous!
I think its time players took a little responsibility. Start behaving like adults, make the game attractive, stop your tantrums, stop refusing to leave a game until you are dragged off the feild, stop berating refs, playing on, bonus balling, bitching and complaining, stop trying to be scumbag gangsters, get some better role-models, stop being complete and utter twats. If you do all that, and stop ruining other peoples paintball experiences, then people won't keep leaving the sport in their droves.
Politics indeed - time to wake up and smell the coffee. You are perpetuating the problem every time you play, and every time you jump up and down stamping your feet every time something doesn't go your way. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragically moronic.
I understand that not everyone posting here is a twat, but it is everyones responsibility to keep the twats in check, before the lunatics take over the asylum.
also - people selling up because they can't get sponsorships? Thats bollocks too. If its too expensive, fine, but quitting because you can't get anyone else to pay for it is just selfish indulgence, not a valid reason in any way.
Perhaps people are selling up because of the new breed of player emerging. Twats like Tommeh, who have no respect for the game. Perhaps people are just getting put off it all by the way the cheats and whiners spoilt their fun? I think they are far more plausible reasons than:
'Politics are strangling the game' - utter tosh
"Cause if you're not sponsored it costs a fortune' - get real.
In any industry, companies have to sell product. There are now more products, cheaper, and better, than ever before. There are also more opportunities for players to get some sort of industry support than ever before, as there are more companies to approach. Paint is cheaper, guns are cheaper, gear is cheaper. This alone makes the above 2 comments worthless. I mean what has politics got to do with it? Blame yourselves you fools, before it's too late. Quit blaming everyone else and take a long look at yourselves. You look ridiculous!
I think its time players took a little responsibility. Start behaving like adults, make the game attractive, stop your tantrums, stop refusing to leave a game until you are dragged off the feild, stop berating refs, playing on, bonus balling, bitching and complaining, stop trying to be scumbag gangsters, get some better role-models, stop being complete and utter twats. If you do all that, and stop ruining other peoples paintball experiences, then people won't keep leaving the sport in their droves.
Politics indeed - time to wake up and smell the coffee. You are perpetuating the problem every time you play, and every time you jump up and down stamping your feet every time something doesn't go your way. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragically moronic.
I understand that not everyone posting here is a twat, but it is everyones responsibility to keep the twats in check, before the lunatics take over the asylum.
Missy Q said:I think its time players took a little responsibility. Start behaving like adults, make the game attractive, stop your tantrums, stop refusing to leave a game until you are dragged off the feild, stop berating refs, playing on, bonus balling, bitching and complaining, stop trying to be scumbag gangsters, get some better role-models, stop being complete and utter twats. If you do all that, and stop ruining other peoples paintball experiences,Apart from thatAnything else wrong ?
In my profession I get to meet a lot of twats, and I also have the enviable position of being able to see the spiraling ethics of the everyday paintballer over the past 17 years.
If I had nothing to do with paintball, and was itroduced to it 5 years ago I would love it. If I was introduced to it today, I would be in jail inside a month for slaughtering some jumped up twat who disregarded the hits I had put all over him, then eliminated me from the game, swore at me, told the ref he sucked, put another 8 shots into my back as I left the field, and then openly bragged about it afterwards.
The only thing more annoying than that is having these young 'gentlemen' blame the 'politics' and lack of even more industry sponsorship for the decline in participation, and the reason why people who have played for years, and bought all their gear at higher prices, are now hanging up their harnesses.
If I had nothing to do with paintball, and was itroduced to it 5 years ago I would love it. If I was introduced to it today, I would be in jail inside a month for slaughtering some jumped up twat who disregarded the hits I had put all over him, then eliminated me from the game, swore at me, told the ref he sucked, put another 8 shots into my back as I left the field, and then openly bragged about it afterwards.
The only thing more annoying than that is having these young 'gentlemen' blame the 'politics' and lack of even more industry sponsorship for the decline in participation, and the reason why people who have played for years, and bought all their gear at higher prices, are now hanging up their harnesses.
'Sponsorship' is bollox. Our entire team plays without it, we pay full clout for everything & we still manage to play twice a month minimum. Half the problem is the fact that froums like these are populated by immature, pre-pubescents that think they are 'Sportsmen' after playing paintball for 6 months. Unfortunately, these are the people who voice their opinions the most frequently & are heard the most often. The rest of the children then take this uninformed claptrap as gospel. Why do you think Angels (as a good example) are losing money so quickly? Because little Johnny gets one on a 'sponsorship' deal, for five eighths the retail price, keeps it for three days & thn decides he wants something newer. But, if he can't sell it within a day of posting it on here, he drops the price by £100 a day until he gets shot of the thing. This then sets a precedent as to the resale value of every single gun of the same make/model!!!! If paintball were unavailable to under 18's (it should be as far as I'm concerned) it would be a much better hobby, with much less aggro!!
ps. I'm 31 if anyone's interested.
ps. I'm 31 if anyone's interested.
Robtattoo proves my point perfectly adequately.
Quit the finger-pointing and start behaving.
All those event operators and site owners need to do their bit too. There should be tougher penalties for idiots, cheats and scum-bags. People will only do what they think they can get away with - its human nature. If everyone gets on the same page Paintball can again be an attractive extreme sport that anyone can get into regardless of age, size etc.
Keep letting the punks do their own thing, keep perpetuating the myth that 'gangsta is cool', and you're all ****ed. It won't matter in the US, there are so many more consumers, but in the UK you will definitely run out of people that want to take Paintball on as a serious hobby.
Quit the finger-pointing and start behaving.
All those event operators and site owners need to do their bit too. There should be tougher penalties for idiots, cheats and scum-bags. People will only do what they think they can get away with - its human nature. If everyone gets on the same page Paintball can again be an attractive extreme sport that anyone can get into regardless of age, size etc.
Keep letting the punks do their own thing, keep perpetuating the myth that 'gangsta is cool', and you're all ****ed. It won't matter in the US, there are so many more consumers, but in the UK you will definitely run out of people that want to take Paintball on as a serious hobby.
Interesting Thread !
I have not been paintballing for years, I used to go when the wind was too strong for Parachuting, Ihave little or no interest in tournements or league play, mainly because I'm too old slow and rotund!!
But I do enjoy creeping through the woods shooting at my mates and having a laugh.
Reading this thread it seems that paintball as you know it is going the same way as Skydiving went in the late 80's. Competitions killed the enjoyment and bred a race of ego maniac dickheads with more money than sense.
If you didn't have the latest kit you were a second rater.
We are quite happy to toddle off into the backwoods miles from civilisation and have a good old fashioned skirmish with no rules and regs, apart from the safety aspects. and yes we have kit capable of the obvious
So if you hear the thud of the mortar and the full auto in the distance
RUN TO THE SOUND OF THE GUNS its us
And my your god go with you.
I have not been paintballing for years, I used to go when the wind was too strong for Parachuting, Ihave little or no interest in tournements or league play, mainly because I'm too old slow and rotund!!
But I do enjoy creeping through the woods shooting at my mates and having a laugh.
Reading this thread it seems that paintball as you know it is going the same way as Skydiving went in the late 80's. Competitions killed the enjoyment and bred a race of ego maniac dickheads with more money than sense.
If you didn't have the latest kit you were a second rater.
We are quite happy to toddle off into the backwoods miles from civilisation and have a good old fashioned skirmish with no rules and regs, apart from the safety aspects. and yes we have kit capable of the obvious
So if you hear the thud of the mortar and the full auto in the distance
RUN TO THE SOUND OF THE GUNS its us
And my your god go with you.