This SP bashing thing has just about gotten onto my last nerve. And I am not really sure that I care what anyone thinks of it, I really have had enough of this "anti Smart Parts", bash them cause they suck for running their business in a way that helps them profit. Was it a bad thing for grass roots paintball? Sure, I suppose it was. But honestly I think if we all had some intrest to protect in an age of litigation and given the same choices that we could all agree. If Smart Parts hadn't done it, someone else would have. Many companies have used the patent process to protect their intrest in a product. A great deal of the time, their claim is questionable. But until someone comes along with enough capital and proof to invalidate the claim there is nothing to do about it. A fact that many well funded companies, who don't gather their fair share of this percieved hate for being partners with Smart Parts, who have decided it was better for them economically to just go along...The number of things in which we have to just "play ball" is boggling. And for certain they aren't the only current manufacturer, or past for that matter, that spews pure BS hype to sell a product. Nor will they be the last.
So now, everywhere you go online, to any forum there is at least one thread where someone somewhere is bashing SP for how they suck, and their products suck, they have never made anything good, anti fanboi spam to the max. You can't even post a pic or ask a question about one of their products without someone coming on the thread to tell you to "throw it in a lake" or "I wouldn't own that crap", "it's junk"....etc. And then you have this legion of people who hang on every word that has ever been said by anyone even marginally involved with SP so they can pick apart what they have to say, adding to this giant circus of a feeding frenzy going on every paintball forum on the net. This junk has probably done more to increase web traffic to any given site for a good bashing thread than any one other thing in paintball. A fact that I am certain is not lost on the bean counters keeping track of this type of thing.
I would be willing to bet that more than half the people involved in the hate and nonsense don't even know the real reasons behind what has gone on. They just hear it, and repeat it to be a part of the "cool" anti Smart Parts bashing club.
Honestly, how many people on this site alone think that AGD isn't making the E/X Mag because of SP?
I am not a huge fan of what they have done and continue to do, but I can understand the why behind it in todays market. This nonsensical bashing has gone well past its usefulness. If you don't like them and don't wish to support them then let your dollars decide. At this point, they are so deeply entrenched into the industry that they aren't going anywhere anyway.
So now, everywhere you go online, to any forum there is at least one thread where someone somewhere is bashing SP for how they suck, and their products suck, they have never made anything good, anti fanboi spam to the max. You can't even post a pic or ask a question about one of their products without someone coming on the thread to tell you to "throw it in a lake" or "I wouldn't own that crap", "it's junk"....etc. And then you have this legion of people who hang on every word that has ever been said by anyone even marginally involved with SP so they can pick apart what they have to say, adding to this giant circus of a feeding frenzy going on every paintball forum on the net. This junk has probably done more to increase web traffic to any given site for a good bashing thread than any one other thing in paintball. A fact that I am certain is not lost on the bean counters keeping track of this type of thing.
I would be willing to bet that more than half the people involved in the hate and nonsense don't even know the real reasons behind what has gone on. They just hear it, and repeat it to be a part of the "cool" anti Smart Parts bashing club.
Honestly, how many people on this site alone think that AGD isn't making the E/X Mag because of SP?
I am not a huge fan of what they have done and continue to do, but I can understand the why behind it in todays market. This nonsensical bashing has gone well past its usefulness. If you don't like them and don't wish to support them then let your dollars decide. At this point, they are so deeply entrenched into the industry that they aren't going anywhere anyway.
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