What is AGD doing in the future?

[NoFearPaintballer]

I have a few questions.

With WDP sueing SP and a few fields. Will AGD start selling Emags and Xmag to the US? And is AGD working on any new products. possible a new Electro mag?

just a few things I want to know about

[nt2004]

AGD has discontinued production of the x and emags and the possiblity of a new electro mag is slim to none. AGD is focusing on fast mechanical paintball guns rather than electros. Check out the deadlywind hair trigger video at the top of the forum. It might hint at what could be in the future

[NoFearPaintballer]

may be for the best


i was hoping on a new electro possibly smaller and can cap out faster

[Chronobreak]

do a search for agds new gun its rumord there working on it but nothing definite at this time

[NoFearPaintballer]

i wonder what tom kaye has to say?

but a new agd gun would definately bring me back to mags!

[Enemy]

but in the mean time the emags with 4.01 can do 22-24 bps and thats with someone pulling the trigger the vavle is rated at 25 so we all have something to hold us over till then.

[Athius]

AGD is gonna make, by popular demand, Tomato Launchers and by the way i think the AGD tomato launcher is gonna be named toma-mag.

[minimag03]

I heard that if AGD brings the E/X-mag back that they are going to be making some changes like a smaller battery pack. But that was a long time ago. I wish AGD would give us a hint of what is to come. Com' on Tom, tell us.

minimag03

[ZapTheMad]

Yes Tom, do tell!

[Automaggin2]

He already did tell....search.

[penguinpunk555]

The only thing for AGD towards the tourney scene right now seems to be the DeadlyWind trigger. Think they want to move to scenario stuff.

[AGD]

Ok here is the scoop. Paintball is in a wierd time right now. We can't make decisions to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop a porduct we might get sued over. Without legal threats we can either make a new electro or a super fast mech. Electro is easier, mech is safer. Its a Y in the road and to play it safe we are currently in "pause mode" where we are sitting at the fork waiting to see what happens.

As you can see from the recent WDP suits that this thing is not over. If you count up who has been sued along with those that signed up to pay royalties, the list of remaining companies is short, VERY short. Obviously we and a few others are on that list. To make matters worse no one is talking to anyone in the industry becasue it opens up more potential legal problems.

Our current strategy is to focus on lowering prices, this everyone likes. When we did that we had a jump in demand that threw us into backorder. We are still cleaning up inventory issues but with the demise of the Automag, Minimag and Flatline those issues are pretty much over. Our current most important job is to get inventory up so no one is waiting for our new lower priced products.

Concerning tournaments, we have not been able to change the minds of tourney players no matter what we did. The "mags suck" attitude would not go away. Well here is our secret plan..... If they think mags suck then we make the "mag" name go away, get it? Dump all the products that say "mag" and then lay low a while. The tournament kids turn over every 6 months to a year so if we evaporate the name and wait a bit, when we come back with a new name, PRESTO we are new gun on the block!

Scenario is getting HUGE and we are the only company seriously sponsoring teams. We have basically all the big names, Bad Karma, Evil Inc., Mayberrry Mauraders, Blitzkrieg and more. We are offering the Tac-One as a made-for-scenario marker which people are excited about. Our next new products will likely be scenario related while we let the tourney scene settle down.

We are continuing discussions with Nicad about his trigger. Since he doesn't have a patent yet this makes the whole thing very tricky. If this works out, we expect to have a super mech trigger system as our next major product.

We are currenly expanding our made to order RTpros to inlcude Nicad bodies, Tac bodies and any other darn thing we sell that fits on it. Everyone seems to like having it their way!

SO to recap, waiting on the legal storm to be over, hiding from the tournament guys, pushing scenario to new heights, cooking the burgers YOUR way and trying to make Nicad happy.

Thats whats going on at,

AGD

[coolcatpete]

Sound reasonable.
Pete

[shivors]

That's it. I am getting a mag.

[nt2004]

AGD is gonna make, by popular demand, Tomato Launchers and by the way i think the AGD tomato launcher is gonna be named toma-mag.

you say tomato, i say tomago.......