No More Non-WGP Cockers?

[Fixion]

Ha! Twin tips! Ha!

If you're not racing, you're not skiing!

Back in my day we didn't have these fancy dohickeys called "skies". We used a pair of old two by fours after we extracted the rusty nails with our teeth. We didn't have those heated massage "chair lifts" either, we were real men and hiked up the mountain in snow waist deep! Barefeet! Do you know how long it takes to get up a mountain like that? FOUR HOURS, and thats a small mountain! Then we taped our feet to the two by fours with some "stickittodaman" brand tape and hoped that we could slide down the mountain without breaking ourselves! AND WE LIKED IT!!!

And that is why I snowboard.

[shartley]

Lets all welcome big company menatlity to paintball. No patents, already lost trying to get people to stop before and the only reason cockers are as popular as they are is because EVERYONE makes stuff for them. Kill off all the people helping you succeed and you will be like AGD, a stand alone in the paintball world.

Its a stupid move especially since I am not aware of ANYONE who still buys bodies from Worr. Lets face it, compared to top end tournament guns today cockers in general don't have the looks or the speed. You need help staying on top, one company can't do it alone.

I can talk like this now since Budd is no longer my competitor only my friend.

AGD

Source: http://www.paintballstar.com/pn/modu...0bb0ed71dcfd65

[Shykicker]

Well, Tom didn't say that they can't, or that they're wrong to pursue the issue- only that it was a stupid move. And arguably, yes it was. Especially since WGP is defining a "genuine" 'cocker as one with a WGP body. Which means if you want to market an autococker with all "genuine" parts -except- the body, suddenly it's suspect as an inferior product.

Also, I don't really see people going about saying "Man, this custom autococker I got sucks. Autocockers suck!" It just doesn't seem like it's a problem. "inferior products" is just an excuse, because (correct me if I'm wrong) custom 'cockers tend to be just a cut above the stock Autocockers.

And they're basically telling you that if you swap out your body to a non-WGP slug mill-job, you're not supposed to call your marker an Autococker.

I suppose I just don't see how after-market upgrades denegrate the 'quality' of a product to the point where it's no longer an "Autococker."

As for Budd Orr being a 'competator,' I dunno. Every time I read his new statements in a press release, I just can't help but imagine a K2 Exec with a Budd Orr puppet.

But what's in a name? In the long haul, it's not a huge deal. And I think that's the problem. It's *not* a huge deal. So why is K2 making such an issue out of it? It comes off as just sort of goofey and counter-productive.