Paintball Review Marker Listings

[OIC]

I have ask Paintball review two times to explain way they use the system they do. I still have not gotten a reply, so I will put it to the masses. Why do you think Pbreview uses a High End and Low End to classify markers? Have you ever seen any other place use such a system? What if they classified cars that way, Ford LOW END and Chevy High end, or fuel injected LOW end and Carberated HIGH end? or import HIGH END and Domestic LOW end? Isnt that mostly opinion. And who decides what is low and high end, what is the determining thing? Why not say blow forward or whatever type it is? Or better yet, classifiy them as CO2 or HPA only or both, that would actually say something rather than saying this is GOOD and this is LOW. If this system is so wonderfull, why not apply it to the mask, and squeegies? What about barrels, that would save some time? Hows about paintball? why not just say this paintball is HIGH END and this one is LOW End. I think its because its 90%opinion. Its a bad system, and really dosnt make much sense.
-OIC-

[clown_13_2001]

It makes a bunch of sense. It isn't really hard to understand, and a MAJORITY of paintballers classify guns the same way.

[OWNAGE]

People do classify cars as high-end and low-end.

Do you think someone who is looking at a brand new Toyota/Ford/Chevy/etc will also be looking at a brand new Lexus/Jaguar/Cadillac/etc?

[mugenXP]

I don't agree with classifying them as high end or low end either, it puts down a lot of "low end" owners when they know that they fall under the "LOW" side. if you look around the forum, you see a bunch of kids trying hard to get a better gun because they are holding a "low end" gun.

back then there was a big gap between certain markers, but now you'd see the ions, promasters, fusions in the high-end forum, and they are not considered high end compared to the real high ends... seems like the word high-end had already lost its meaning ever since the "halfassed high-ends" hit the market.

[coolrazer]

Does it matter? A tippmann is on a different level than a DM7, if you can't see that then leave.

[OIC]

Soo is the Tippmann better or dm7? dont leave us hanging, oh and why?
your thoughtful insights like this are so darn constuctive and helpful, thanks in advance.

-OIC-

[coolrazer]

I'm not even going to bother with this. Go out and actually play paintball and stop complaining about why certain markers are classified the way they are on a review site.

[Jaster]

I'm sorry but something like a Tippy, spyder, BE, 32* are lowend markers... thats just the way it is. It's a matter of how they are made, the parts in them and what they can do. Nothing against who ever uses one. I've used them, my son uses a 32* now. I know damn well if you call my kid a poor player because of what he's shooting... he'll shoot you then laugh at you. The type of marker you have says nothing about you as a player. Dont think it does. It's a class of marker... not a class of player or person. Not everyone can dump $1000+ into a marker... or can't justify it just coming into the sprt... gotta start somewhere... There are markers out there that can out perform others. My Timmys will out perform most of the markers I mentioned and are of a much better quality. No different then how a Ferrarri can out perform my mini-van or my Citizen watch is better quality then a walmart special for $11.99.

[clown_13_2001]

HOLD UP!!!! WAIT RIGHT THERE JASTER!















































You drive a mini-van?:eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[Lopez17]

We use the system that's currently in place because it's a relatively straight forward and easy way to differentiate between markers. Over the last few years you've had some "tweener" markers that could go either way and we could add a mid-level marker section but then we get more conflict about what makes a marker a mid-level gun and what doesn't. There's no perfect system that everyone is going to agree with. That's pretty much true of anything in life. So we've chosen to keep it simple.

If anyone gets an inferiority complex over which category their marker is in, then they have other issues that really should be a higher priority in their life and proactively addressed with a therapist.

There's also nothing in the heading that implies that one marker is "better" than another. A person shooting a Tippman or Spyder can shoot out someone with a DM6. However when it comes to the construction and operation of the marker the term low-end and high-end can help to categorize (again with some potential for ambiguity with some tweener markers) markers of similar construction methods. Sear tripped blowbacks will never have a stock configuration that competes with the inherent precision of the regulated air distribution of an Electro Pneumatic. That's just fact.

In the auto market they categorize cars in a similar manner. This is why they have Luxury brands. It doesn't mean that your Honda Civic or Toyota Camry isn't a good car and won't last a long while, it does however mean that in a stock configuration the Lexus IS350 or BMW 330i are going to be much nicer cars with a great many more features than the two cars I mentioned earlier.

It's just a methodology for classifying things easily. Nothing more, nothing less.