Does the price of paintball make you play less often?

[kylyo123456]

I love going paintballing. It is a super fun sport, good excersize, and having an awesome gun to play with makes it even funner. I was playing yesterday and starting thinking about all the money I have spent and I started to think maybe I should quit playing-maybe just go once a month or less-and sell my gun. I dropped 1200 on my Xmag. I wanted one so bad I didn't think of the money when I was buying it. On top of the gun I drop $80+ everytime I go paintballing, which is at least every other weekend. This all factored together adds up to...... ...A LOT of money. I decided to sell my Xmag and go back to an RT ULE, but I still have to drop a ton of money everytime I play.
Any of you quit going as often or dropped the sport all together? I am a college student and I can't keep up with the price of paintball anymore. Maybe I will start skating more again. Skating is one of the few hobbies that is cheap, fun, and can be done year round. The draw back to skating is injuries-I dislocated my shoulder 7 times and let me tell you that doesn't tickle, but atleast my pockets are full
What hobbies have you replaced paintballing with?-if any. Do you think there will ever be a drop in the price of paintball?-mainly the price of balls. It would be awesome if it was only 30-40 for a full day of paintballing

[BE4life182]

buy a pump.

[Won Hunglo]

Paintball is expensive now? Bawawawa!!!! You should have been a player in the early 90's. Took 200 bucks everytime you stepped on the field.


Then:

Case of paint $125 (2500 in a case back then & it usually wasn't round)
Field fee: $15
Each 20oz CO2 fill: $4 (No such thing as nitro yet)
Classic powerfeed mag: $500+
18V Shredder loader to feed that blazing 7 BPS Mag: $100

Now:

Case of paint $50 (dang good stuff most of the time)
Field fee: $12
Each 20oz CO2 fill: Free fill with field fee. (People still use CO2?)
Nitro: Free fill with field fee.
Classic powerfeed mag: $150 on Ebay
18V Shredder loader to feed that blazing 7 BPS Mag: Well the shredder died & became the revy. An X board revy that feeds 3 times as fast: $45

Yea paintball is pretty cheap now.

[toymyster]

Thank you Won!!! It's good to know I'm not the only person that remembers those days around here!!! I remeber paying $125 for a case of paint......

[silentdeath55]

Where I come from, field paint costs $88 a case, field fee is $15 w/o membership (membership is $50), and air is $1 per 1000 psi. So it is still quite expensive here.

And back in the day, a case of 2500 balls would last you a LONG time considering you could only shoot around 7bps. Today, w/ 20+ bps guns, a case goes pretty darn fast.

[jesseyo13]

I do see his point though. If it cost 70$ every time and you go about 20 times a year thats 1400$ plus the price of your gun, tank, hopper and other stuff. It really adds up fast. But what other sport is so much fun?

[SlipknotX556]

Well as of right now, I have no where to play, county shut everyone down.

The place I loved to play the most was...

65 case
10 entry
free all day air.

75 total.

[toymyster]

Time for you to find another field my friend!!!
For me :
Paint <$30 a case (LX has paid for itself already)
Field fee: $20
Air: FREE (My favorite price) or $5- $10 all day
So yes, painball is really not that expensive these days!!!

[�?�� �m���]

:-D this is why some of us play stock for 100 balls a day

[ilikePB]

What hobbies have you replaced paintballing with?

I didn't replace it, but another hobby of mine is fast cars. The only problem is that hot rodding cars is even more expensive than paintball, lol. Be happy you aren't addicted to paintball and fast cars, otherwise you would be super broke.

[personman]

I basically did the same thing you did. I had a green micro e-mag that BobTheCow currently has and I just couldnt pay for it anymore, so I sold it to sneakyhacker and built a mech mag. I still use alot of money every time I play. I also recently bought a phantom but its hard for me to adapt my style to it.
I havent played since like march. My substitutes lately have been scouting activities and music (clarinet, trumpet, guitar) for the most part. I hope to start playing again before the summer is over though. I miss paintball.

[MagAl]

Does the price of paintball make you play less often? yeah

[Skoad]

it does for me, but mainly because I have no job.

[kylyo123456]

I never thought of a pump. That would be hard to go from 15+ balls per second to 2-3. But I wouldn't go through balls that fast.

[JimmyBeam]

ya it does get expensive. but thats why we have jobs right? i guess im lucky enough to have made friends with the people that run my field so i dont have to pay for the field fee or air, and i get this paint called Flash for 35 a case, they normally charge 55. i think its pretty decent stuff too imo.