I'm fed up with APG

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  • Ken
    Registered User
    • Oct 2003
    • 141

    #1

    I'm fed up with APG

    I got my current issue of APG today in the mail, after being a long time reader I decided that after this subscription , that I'm done.
    I open it up expecting some good tourny coverage or USEFULL stuff and I get half a magazine full of ads, the same CO2 (fan) mail
    6 articles on saftey and noobies, an in depth review of the same spyder that they have been reviewing for 3 years with ''tournament style milling'' that can hit a target 18/20 times at 60 feet in '' moderate'' conditions . Then a few more articles why people who use paint sling o matics suck. Then get spoon fed the same rhetoric that every gun is as good as another due to paint to barrell match. So, you're telling me that a spyder has the same grouping and consistency as a mag , timmy or cocker?

    I used to look forward to the ''taking stock'' section where there was some good stuff on stock class paintball, I'm a big fan myself and I see '' how to change your 12 grams'' and in depth pictures.


    APG you suck,
    Ken
    Last edited by Ken; 09-01-2004, 08:24 PM.
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  • AcemanPB
    Exactly
    • Mar 2002
    • 1885

    #2
    Yeah I've cancled my APG suscription ages ago. My fingers got tired of flipping through all the ads and poorly written articles. It's a good source of information for newer players.

    Now I read PB2X, it' a great mag. Although about 99 percent of the stuff I read in the magazine I've read online about a month before but thats the nature of the beast.

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    • DiSoRdeR
      Pump enthusiast
      • Jul 2003
      • 1767

      #3
      I get PB2X, but I miss AGP. Not for there articles or reviews, but because I like looking through alot of ads

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      • hobbesTZ
        :dodgy:
        • Aug 2002
        • 2219

        #4
        APG sucks, I feel dumb after reading them. Also, I don't agree that every gun ever made is awesome.

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        • Bob_da_Splatman
          Registered User
          • Aug 2004
          • 250

          #5
          I get facefull and it seems pretty good !!!!
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          • dyerules
            Registered User
            • Jul 2001
            • 176

            #6
            Ya i agree w/ u guys. I stopped reading APG a looong time ago not because of the ads but the 'noobie' material. But I will admit when i first started playing it helped me to understand the game. When i give my pgi or facefull to a friend to read u can see it goes over there heads where if u give them apg its more comprehendable. Its just the nature of the magazine.
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            • xXHavokXx
              Section XIII.
              • Aug 2003
              • 860

              #7
              APG reviews every gun as if they are the greatest marker on Earth.

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              • bokraham
                Registered User
                • Jan 2004
                • 272

                #8
                PGI is the best. It is the thinnest but it takes me thrice as long to read it as it does for me to read other mags because they have great articles.

                pb2x is pretty good
                splat= mainstream + porn
                Facefull= lots of good tourney articles + crap tourney articles
                APG= pictures and articles by, for, and read by nubes
                that is such a chipmunk mentality

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                • abunkerer
                  Chicago Conmen
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 750

                  #9
                  PGI..paintball games international, it's the best magazing ive read so far, it has good reviews, pro-tips, and tourney info..Faceful is good too.



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                  • Jeffy-CanCon
                    veteran rec player
                    • May 2003
                    • 1309

                    #10
                    My experience is that after a while, you start to see the same things in the magazines. There is really only so much useful info that a magazine can communicate. Most of the articles will be tourney or BG reports, and equipment reviews. And once you have experience and a good circle of friends, you will rely on your own contacts for the latter, anyway.

                    Myself, I stopped buying magazines that didn't have stories/pictures of my friends before Y2K. The only one I've bought in two years was one that had me in it.

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                    • FragTek
                      RPG DevilMAG Owner
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 2382

                      #11
                      I'm a fan of Facefull myself, good tourny articles.

                      I just got a box of the premier issue P2P mags which is the newest one out. It's a decent mag, it's more geared toward the rookie-expert tourny player which relates to most ballers. The articles are so-so, seen a few typo's, but the quality of the magazine is good, it's very sturdy, thick pages, and very crisp clean pictures and prints. Give this one some time to develop and I think it will become a favorite among readers.

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                      • Destructo6
                        Registered User
                        • Apr 2004
                        • 549

                        #12
                        APG has been running the same articles, or carbon copies, since at least the early 1990s. With the number of ads that are in it these days, they should pay you to take it off the newsstands.
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                        • RT pRo AuToMaG
                          (un)official MatrixDM4Tech
                          • Mar 2002
                          • 1000

                          #13
                          PB2X is pretty funny and has some good info in it, and Facefull has the best pics by far, articles could be better, but are pretty good anyway, and has a lot of tourney coverage. Facefull is my faveroite, most tourney coverage and good articles about the industry in general, but some of the stuff printed is a bit dated since it's bimonthly.
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                          • evan123
                            Absolutely Pimpin'
                            • Aug 2003
                            • 868

                            #14
                            Originally posted by abunkerer
                            PGI..paintball games international, it's the best magazing ive read so far, it has good reviews, pro-tips, and tourney info..Faceful is good too.
                            this kid knows whats up. PGI is absolutely the best out there. The ads which there aren't many of are of higher end guns most of the time. The articles about good guns and good new released products. A lot of tourney stuff

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                            • fire1811
                              Firefighter
                              • Nov 2002
                              • 4930

                              #15
                              Originally posted by abunkerer
                              PGI..paintball games international, it's the best magazing ive read so far, it has good reviews, pro-tips, and tourney info..Faceful is good too.

                              agreed both of these are great mags.


                              APG is for new players. there was rarly any info in it i could use. most of it is just woods ballers bashing tournement players. not even worth the time to read
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