Paintball Magazines - Love ‘em, Hate ‘em
There is a reasonable variety of paintball magazines on the racks these days: Paintball Sports Magazine, Paintball Games International, Action Pursuit Games, just to name a couple.
I have a great deal of respect for the publications, as they all are very similar to what Evan and I try to do with this blog. However, not all magazines are created equal.
I’ve got three of the latest issues of those magazines I mentioned above sitting in front of me. I’ve read through all of them, and I’m pretty sure I’ve got a fairly decent understanding of the content in each, and I believe they are all representative of the content that each of the magazines typically publishes.
From these (and the dozens of other paintball magazines I’ve read) I’ve come to understand that there are two types of paintball magazine.
The first type is something that I loathe in all publications, paintball related or not. I’ve seen it in all sorts of magazine, from automobile mags to gaming mags. It’s that which has apparently sold out to the highest advertiser, or truly believes that everything ever made is simply perfect and only good things ought to be published anyway. When I can’t find a single truly opinionated statement in the entire magazine, I have trouble believing whatever else I read in the magazine.
The second type of magazine is one in which you can tell there are real people, real paintballers, writing for it. There are meaningful articles that actually pertain to your interests, and which contain insights into the workings of paintball on a higher level.
I certainly prefer the second type.
I won’t mention any names of magazines in either of the categories, because, quite honestly, I don’t feel like badmouthing any publications in the same industry as me.
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