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timmyh007

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Amazing isnt it..i was in WHSmiths yesterday looking at magazines. There seemed to be a magazine for every hobby/sport you could think of. Hell, there were even magazines for stationary engine enthusiasts, professional curling and the re-creators of the Battle of Neasden Society. .....you would think that the paintball industry could get a monthly publication of sorts onto the shelves!!
 

Robbo

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The reason we cannot support a UK [or International] magazine is simple, the industry are unable to support one; the sort of money required to employ editors, sub editors, designers, printers etc etc etc is just not available in today's climate.

I'm pretty sure that at some later date, if the climate does change and sufficient money is injected back into our sport then some enterprising individual like Matt Tudor [he is the guy who originally bought PGi into the world of paintball] may risk their money again but I doubt it will be Matt himself this time ..... well, not unless there is a complete sea-change within the industry and I'm afraid that ain't gonna happen in my opinion.

Paintball has had its Halcyon days, they have come and long since gone, the best we can hope for is an industry that mirrors the incomes of sometime like 1998-2000; it would be impossible for the industry to generate more money than those times in my opinion because any extra money generated after that time was generated on a false premise, and that premise was TV.
The industry has fallen for that doozie one time already, they won't make the same mistake twice I can tell ya.