Game Setup?

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The reality of paintball is that running a field and particularly producing large-scale events costs much more money than most players will ever understand. Since paintball fields are a business and not a charity venture, they've got to turn a profit somewhere. The only real options are on admission and on paint (concessions can help, and air prices usually barely cover equipment and maintenance). SO, for an event like this one, the shoice is between admission and paint (of course reality is a balance between the two). Battlefront could certainly offer paint closer to their cost, let's say at the running retail of $45. However, that would have to be balanced somehow, and the only real option is admission. So, let's say every player buys one case of paint. Lowering the price of paint by $20 would create a $20 deficit per player. Of course, that has to be made up somewhere, like by raising admission by $20.

 

In short, fields are a business and customers will pay to run that business one way or another.

 

Personally, I would rather increased paint prices handle more of the overhead. That way, more players can get in the door with the lower admission and they are in control of how much they spend on paint.

This is why they can charge those prices.  Its a quality product. 

 

Brother James

Red Hand Infidels