How much longer for the Angel?

[rifleman]

I'd only give the angel about 2 more years :)

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[Ov3rmind]

LOL, forever, yeah right! I think I'd also give it about two more.

[Paintchucker]

Where is it going???

Exactly what makes you think it is going away???

[SGTKennedy]

i havent played with one on the field but i have shot em before and i didnt care for it. but there are to many people in the industry that will pay for them because they are (insert awe inspiring music here) Angels.

Edit: ack... thats not what i originally meant. Im saying there are to many KIDS in the game that own spyders and tippmans and stuff that will buy them because they're Angels, They will never die because they arent bad guns (i just dont care for them), but the company will be around as long as paintball there is a person behind the Angel that loses as much sleep as TK does, and he will innovate to keep the angel alive.

[HoppysMag]

good guns. but most people its the " Well my gun cost 1700$, so it must be better than 300$ your gun, and if its better than your gun that makes me better than you"

[bunkerking]

In my opinion, the angel will be here longer than 2 more years. Why? Because it has been proven. Why do you see more Angels in the tourney seen? Because the tourny players are comfortable with that gun, so they will continue to use that gun for many years. Also, WDP seems like it is the biggest company in paintball right now. I mean they hold these big parties at these big events, and everyone shows up. In conclusion, the angel will be here for a really long time.

[DarkRipper]

I think that there will always be a core of hardcore angel users, just like you guys are representative of hardcore mag users.

So, the angel will never really go away. It may wane from the tourny scene as the mag has to a point, but it will be out there shooting balls and that's what's important.

:)
So, my answer is "forever" in that forever equals as long as paintball lasts.

There are still people playing with stock class guns and pumps...

DR

[Butterfingers]

For as long as WDP continues their sponsorships

[FeelTheRT]

The Angel is NEVER going away, it's got a too good of a reputation. It will always be concidered top of the todem pole gun even though many guns out there can compeat with it.

[HyperSnyper]

Empires do Fall

Have you ever noticed back in the days the trend with DYE's empire over the tourney scene? Every tourney player had a Boomstick, and it was the ONLY barrel to have.

Now a days, look, DYE has lost its grasp to its other competitors. The JT and Freak Barrel System is balancing out the market more evenly.

Its just a matter of time til another company steps in...



-Hyper

[AGD]

Well concerning the Angel I can tell you this. When I first got going on this forum thing I was monitoring the number of posts per day the Angel forum on pbcity was getting. They used to regularly get into the 600's per day. Since pbc went away I haven't been traking them but now PBNation has taken over and I have recently started tracking them again there. They are down to less than 200 a day. I don't know if the Angel owners are going somewhere else, I have looked but don't find any big Angel forums. Maybe you all know where they are hiding.

In contrast Impulse went from less than 100 on PBC to over 250 day on PBN.

Angel will always have a high place in tourneys, but a lot of people are chipping away at their dominance.

AGD

[ThePatriot]

In a few years they are done, the new angels are gonna start costing more and more and eventually theres gonna be a 2500 dollar angel with 19 things on it you cant use. People are going to start realizing this and go to a cheaper electro for dependance (impulse,shocker, cocker, and if we are lucky Emags.)

[Wheelman]

I used a friends Angel in a game once, halfway through I was begging for my Mag back. I just didn't like it, if I am gonna go out and spend $1000 on something like that it's gonna be an E-mag.

[MrAirgunRT]

Well, I used to want to get an Angel, until I went out and actually played a whole tourny with one.. Well let's say if I wanted to buy an electro now, it would be a Extreem E-mag. I don't know how long the Angel will last, but if Avalanche uses it, you'll see other teams using it.

[DaXtremeist]

angels are here to stay because to many pro teams use them and wdp is sposoring several pro teams. I know my local pro shop adrenalin rush there team pure adrenalin are all using dark angels and thats because they love the way they shoot. me personally i love the trigger and how the angel feels. but i don't have the money to afford a dark angel at the moment.

they just recently asked me to join the team and said they highly prefer i cary an angel. and i told them since im starting college in the fall i can't aford one and then they said well get an electro gun of some sort and that day i ended up putting 150 down on an impulse.

so there is pressure to get an angel in order to get on a team.

i say the angel is proven to be a good gun and will stay. even though many of you do not like it.