Whos next?

[Lohman446]

Well... AGD bowed out of the electro market Friday, AKA on Monday. Somehow I have a feeling this was not just pure coincidence and that there was some discussion between the two companies.

Whos next on the list, and I am assuming that someone has a list somewhere. Is the frenzy to produce e-blades for a reason, is WGP bowing out soon?

Frankly, if WGP, AKA, AGD and Tippman all bow out of the electros and work together, or seperatly to produce uber mechanical guns, are we going to see the electro market crumble, Is it possible? I would have never expected AGD or AKA to not produce electronic guns, but look now. The patent is there, it looks like its goign to be left to kingman to worry about itself. Perhaps this was a smart move by the above. I mean, if SP is goign to enforce its patent and sue everyone, maybe they will fail against Kingmand and the patent will be destroyed in precedence. Is this just a pause in the electro world or are we finding mechanical alternatives?

[laxkid]

yea kingman is a foriegn company they are not just paintball they have alot of other products I mean alot they can get financial support from.

[Steelrat]

Who knows? The people who DO know arent saying anything, which leaves most of us in the dark. Frankly, its enough to make me want to sell all my stuff and go play Warhammer 40K for a few years until everything is settled. Im tired of buying guns, then having the companies stop making them.

[S.S Bandit1]

Whats going to happen to WDP?

[dyeforever]

nothing i think, WDP is made in europe so the patent doesn't affect them.

someone correct me if im wrong

[penguinpunk555]

Good, the next gun's I plan on getting won't be affected Dye trix or Speed.

[chizle97]

Re: Whos next?

Originally posted by Lohman446
Whos next on the list

YOU!!!!!! j/k (tryin to keep it light-hearted) man SP sure has sumthin up thier but. like a monkey or pennies. Poor old AKA, dose SP remind anyone else of the romans and alexarnder the great?

[Digits]

I think there bowing down untill the dust settles.. All these companies should just start up a branch up here in Canada Shipping would barelly be effected

[sneakyhacker420]

gen-e would be next, but DYE took em over


none of the cockers will be touched, because if i'm correct, the patent only covers solenoids in which air passes through to fire the marker, and in e-cockers, a magnetic solenoid trips the sear to fire the marker, and the air noid has the job of re-cocking it

[laxkid]

correct sneaky and you are going to love the eblade I loved mine.

[Toxic Dave]

sneaky;

Gen-E has not been taken over by Dye, if it has, they've been reallllllly sneaky about it.

Dye bought the rights of manufacture for the Matrix line of products from us, and the patent from the owners of that. They didn't buy Gen-E, we continue to manufacture and distribute paintball products, made by many companies, Dye being one of them...heck we even sell Smart Parts products too!! We have a very good working relationship with SP, as well as most of our other vendors.

We do however call various members of the Dye staff "boss" purley to make them crazy.

dave/ gen-e

[Curly]

Originally posted by Steelrat
Who knows? The people who DO know arent saying anything, which leaves most of us in the dark. Frankly, its enough to make me want to sell all my stuff and go play Warhammer 40K for a few years until everything is settled. Im tired of buying guns, then having the companies stop making them.

Somehow I just cant picture you sitting around and playing warhammer...

[Jonesie]

Originally posted by sneakyhacker420
the patent only covers solenoids in which air passes through to fire the marker, and in e-cockers, a magnetic solenoid trips the sear to fire the marker, and the air noid has the job of re-cocking it

Uh, isn't this the way the AGD markers work? Ofr would the On/Off resetting the 'noid count by this definition?

[Halliday]

Originally posted by Steelrat
Who knows? The people who DO know arent saying anything, which leaves most of us in the dark. Frankly, its enough to make me want to sell all my stuff and go play Warhammer 40K for a few years until everything is settled. Im tired of buying guns, then having the companies stop making them.

Why don't you just directly set your money on fire? It's quicker that way

[spantol]

Gladly.

This patent won't affect WDP's operations in Europe.

It does, or will, however, affect WDP's operations here. When they do business in this country they are subject to our IP laws. They're a valid target for Smart Parts.

Originally posted by dyeforever
nothing i think, WDP is made in europe so the patent doesn't affect them.

someone correct me if im wrong