[wolf13]

now thats a can of worms. Usually it boils down to two reasons:

1. SP has been involved in a number of lawsuits using quastionable, if not outright illegal patents. they single handidly have driven a few companies out of buisness and shut down a number of other guns lines due to having more money and lawyers then the companies they target. Many older players are firmly convinced SP has had a severly detrimental effect on paintball. besides their lack of scruples in the buisness world, the owners are considered by a lot of older players to have been of extremly poor charachter on the field as well.

2. A number of people have experianced shoddy, poorly built equipment from them; and then were blown off by their customer service. In general, many people feel that SP products sacrifice quality and cut every corner possible.

//and for the rcord, I started with number 2, and #1 is just pure icing