Where is paintball going?

In the past twenty five years,  there have been many advances in gun technology and game progression.  People now have seperated themselves into either speedball or woodsball. 

For the woodsballers, we don't rip out twenty bps but there are a select few in our game that decide to do so. 

On the other hand, speedballers easily put out twenty bps and rip through loads of paint.

Everybody can enjoy either one of these games once in a while, even if its not their style.  But the question I am asking about  is the markers.  Where are paintball markers going to in the future?

Do you have any skill if you rip 30bps at the beginning of the game and get three people out?  Is speedball only being dominated by those rich enough to afford electronic markers and uber amounts of paint?

When I have a kid ten years from now I want to know what advancements will be made.  As a paintballer I am afraid that this game will be ruined by technology and the rich.  We need to set limits.  Guns will only get faster.  There have been theories of over commercialization of paintball to make it as organized as football or basketball.  This is not what us woodsballers would like to see.

WHERE IS THE PAINTBALL SOCIETY GOING?

I can say paintball going back to the woods. More stock class play.

Paintball is slowly turning in on itself and possibly may explode into nothingness. It's so huge, and with rules changing constantly, it will be hard to make it into a legit mainstream sport. I always felt that if paintball were a fruit it would be a grape. Not one of those green seedless ones that taste like vomit, but one of those nice purple round ones with seeds that your neighbor grows in her back yard. Let me tell ya, homegrown grapes grown by my still-hot 40-ish neigbor can't be beat.

Paintball really has a place in my heart, even though I have only been playing for 4 years. I played once in 93 or 94 with a friend, but he had this junky old car that definitely is not a chick magnet. that thing spat black smoke like it was sucking on a death cigar straight from the devil. To top that off it had fast food bags all in the back seat coving the floor, rotitng and actually mutating into a new form of beast that groaned every time we hit a pothole.

so...that's my take. I hope I have enlightened the yung-uns.

procarb11 wrote: what does that have do with the progression of paintball.

you must be one of those people the doesn't get knock-knock jokes.

You guys need to stop whining and get back to playing your game. I play speedball and you guys are talking about it as if it is some kind of criminal activity to play speedball. Its just the type of game we like just like you like woodsball. Let us play our game and you play yours. It will never any time soon come to the point where you have no one to play with because every one switched to speedball. Other people share your opinion so play with them. We have worked to get the publicity and advancements that we have now. Im not trying to start a flaming war with you all i'm just saying that this is just another way that people like to play the game.

Speedball will be considered a mainstream sport nationally, while woodsball will still be looked upon as a bunch of wannabe military people.

I know woods is alot larger, im a woodsballer myself. What im saying is that with all the TV coverage and magazines covering speedball, it will be taken on as a mainstream sport.

For those worried about either side dying out, that really won't happen.  First off, speedball will keep progressing and keep going mainstream to the point where it will get recognized as a true sport.  However, back to the main question of where is this technology leading the sport; the technology of faster guns and hundreds of more rounds will eventually lead to limits.  There's no other way because someone, somewhere, will finally have to be hospitalized for severe injuries concerning excessive hits due to such high ROF.  Until then, speedball technology will continue to grow haphazardly.  As for woodsball, I believe, or would like to believe, that things will go to a more scenario/realism type where stock play, as aforementioned, will come back to be more dominant.  I mean cmon, who couldn't enjoy the same adrenaline rush from playing stock AND still having TONS of leftover paint from a SINGLE case.  Or in any case, the woodsball/scenario scene will develop limited paint usage to keep things under control.  That's my humble opinion (and I apologize for my posts always being so long).

god, this whole speedballers shoot 20 bps and woods shoot 3 is annoying as hell give up people dont bother each other.

I could see a few backplayers trying to empty a whole hopper on one second, but they don't know the secret... it's not your hopper or gun or trigger it's how many stickers you have and how large they are...