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    Posted: 13 February 2008 at 5:56pm
What's goin on? I was surfing a bunch of old sites I used to buy from and they seem "dead". Countypaintball seems like it's not doing too well, their forums are rarely if ever used (I remember a few years ago it was the forum to go to). And I just went to visit xtremepaintball.com where I bought my first ever tippy 98 from and they are filing for bankruptcy...

I personally haven't played paintball in about 4 years or so, in that 4 years has paintball started to go fade away? Anyone else got any thoughts or opinions that could enlighten me?

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We're in a definite rut right now.
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It's practically extinct. Latest research shows there's under 2500 players now.
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Yea choop.  I read that too, they're expecting there to be less than 500 players in the US by 2010.
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Originally posted by choopie911 choopie911 wrote:

It's practically extinct. Latest research shows there's under 2500 players now.


lol?

That means we're all in Mass then...


EDIT: But yeah, it is going downhill. I wouldn't say dying though.


Edited by jmac3 - 13 February 2008 at 6:14pm
Que pasa?


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It's the whole money thing, paintball is a luxury and people only play it when they have disposable income.


Expect more to start playing when we get our $600 back in May (haha none for Canadians)

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yeah until paintballs have a significant price drop, and the sport altogether drops in price i aint playing anymore. its just to damned expensive. also, PR needs improvement. some people still think its like crazy kids playing war to learn to kill.

EDIT: damn, i havent been to countypaintball in years. i didnt know they changed it to countysports. hell, reminds me of when Mike would post on these forums a lot.

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Its because three quarters of the buyers are a bunch of dumb kids who buy cheap knockoffs of stuff to get "deals," and then kids who will pay anything for "quality." The market is dominated by one overpriced company and bunch of struggling competitors. Anyway, partially thanks to Al Gore, paintballs are expensive as hell.

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That''s why some of us play stock class.

1 bag of paint for 1.5 months FTW.

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Originally posted by TheWarHam TheWarHam wrote:

Anyway, partially thanks to Al Gore, paintballs are expensive as hell.


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Lets run cars on vegetable oil.

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I played paintball when I was in middle school...
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I still do from time to time, but there has been a huge drop off in exposure and marketing. No monye to be made because people are tired of price gouging on paint.
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Originally posted by choopie911 choopie911 wrote:

It's practically extinct. Latest research shows there's under 2500 players now.
Wait wait, in the world? That number can't be right, there's usually 1700 people on PBNation at one time anytime in the day. And everyone in my town, the town next to me and the town after that I know plays paintball. There is a decline but 2500?
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Originally posted by Kristofer Kristofer wrote:

yeah until paintballs have a significant price drop,


Do you understand how cheap paint is now a days. It's way lower than 5 years ago. 10 years ago it was about $80 a case for ok paint.
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Originally posted by TheWarHam TheWarHam wrote:


Originally posted by choopie911 choopie911 wrote:

It's practically extinct. Latest research shows there's under 2500 players now.
Wait wait, in the world? That number can't be right, there's usually 1700 people on PBNation at one time anytime in the day. And everyone in my town, the town next to me and the town after that I know plays paintball. There is a decline but 2500?



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Originally posted by TheWarHam TheWarHam wrote:

Originally posted by choopie911 choopie911 wrote:

It's practically extinct. Latest research shows there's under 2500 players now.
Wait wait, in the world? That number can't be right, there's usually 1700 people on PBNation at one time anytime in the day. And everyone in my town, the town next to me and the town after that I know plays paintball. There is a decline but 2500?


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Originally posted by pntbl freak pntbl freak wrote:

Originally posted by TheWarHam TheWarHam wrote:

Originally posted by choopie911 choopie911 wrote:

It's practically extinct. Latest research shows there's under 2500 players now.
Wait wait, in the world? That number can't be right, there's usually 1700 people on PBNation at one time anytime in the day. And everyone in my town, the town next to me and the town after that I know plays paintball. There is a decline but 2500?


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http://www.68caliber.com/features/editorials/story042045.php


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I still play, not as much as I would like though, just too much money for paint, especially on fields where they just rape you.
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People are more sarcastic than me on a bad day. Thats weird.

Oh and I thought it was 25000 subconsciously. Which is still a small number. My state probably has that much.


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