Now, whenever an electronic gun is produced, the manufacturer either pays a royalty to Smart Parts or Dye, another company, which due to an anomaly also holds 1/3 of the patent.
This allows Smart Parts to produce and sell guns that are a lot cheaper than their competitors. The competition is dying, with brands going belly up each month. The advancement of the markers has stalled. New editions of markers are merely more compact versions, with no technological gains. Worse, this has fostered an "us versus them" mentality within the industry. Companies that used to help each other out and sponsor each other, instead changed their mentality. Bob Long, a longtime industry leader, can no longer afford to have his company team play tournament paintball!
http://www.paintballx3.com/feature/long-time-coming-bob-long-part-2.html
This has caused the worst catastrophe for the advancement of the sport. The NPPL, the National Professional Paintballer's League, died, due to the sport becoming too expensive, due to a lack of competition.
http://www.a5og.net/general-paintball-related-discussion/20934-nppl-goes-bankrupt.html
Now, without a large professional organization advancing the sport, young kids no longer have dreams of playing in international tournaments. Fields which catered to these kids have closed. Without local fields, how can paintball ever recover?
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