Disruptive Products Inc

Disruptive used the be Paintball Headquarters. This review is on the store and the field. I have paintballed and airsofted at their field.
I used to play paintball when it was owned by Paintball Headquarters. It was family owned and really set up as affordable as a expensive sport gets. The biggest cost to paintball is the paintballs themselves. Being able to bring in your own paintballs made this game affordable to lower income families and players. It also helped keep their field paint they offered at a reasonable price. And just like most everything else in life you get what you pay for but at least you can go and play. Paintball headquarters always used to say fields that make you buy their field paint just want to make extra money and I couldn’t agree more. The worst part is the paint the field offers is high cost and mid range paint. So even if you wanted to bring high dollar paint you don’t have the option. The only time PH said you had to use their paint was in their rentals to help protect their guns. This to me is a huge dis-​service to the people.
Paintball is a sport slowly going downhill. The cost of just what you need to play every week is just becoming too much for a lot of families. And making you buy their field paint is just discouraging more and more people from a great sport. They are trying to capitalize a little too hard on being the only speed ball field in Tucson and because of this fact in my option causes a few more problems for the field.
Now paintball and their fields. The fields are pretty good I really don’t have too many complaints here. The biggest problem is their regulars. They have really good regulars that come as a group that want to stay in a group. I know I would want to stay in a party I came with as well. But when every game your getting slaughtered by people with better gear its harder to enjoy the game. A lot of people starting out dont have the money to dump 500‑1700 into a gun and another 500‑1000 in gear for it. This kind of money difference can really set a steep difference between players. These groups need to be broken up. It just keeps the game more even and much more enjoyable.
Airsoft is pretty close to good. The biggest problem I have is they cater just a little too much to their regulars. If you ask the ref to chrono (check how fast there gun is shooting a bb) he’ll just tell you they are regulars their guns are below. But the second a regular wants your gun to be chrono’d the ref will pull you aside take your gun and chrono it himself. Only other problem I have is the they allow grenades on their smallest field The Drum Field. All you have to do is throw a tennis ball at the start of the game and wipe out all/​a lot of the players on the other side. Forcing you to leave right as the game has started.
Now I understand any place wanting to make sure their regulars have a good time. Thats great! But if doing so makes more and more new players not come back or not want to get into either sport in my option you have a huge problem. What happens if those regulars get tired of the sport? Now not only have you lost them you have lost the 20 – 50 people that didnt come back because you catered so much too him. Id personally like both sports to grow and would really like to be able to go paintballing more. But the way the field is currently setup I don’t see that happening any time soon.
The store has great selection for a real store for paintball and airsoft. They brag a little to hard about being the biggest airsoft dealer in Tucson when no one else has a store to sell airsoft stuff. So being the biggest when its only you is a little lame. They have paintball techs but last time I was in there no airsoft techs. Now they have 1 – 2 guys that will work on your airsoft guns under the table. The problem in doing this is there is no accountability on the store if something goes wrong or isnt installed right. I also know a kid who was ripped off by them and sold a «high modded and custom KWA» that turned out to have junk internals no mods and even lower quality parts then stock. But got taken advantage of because his mom and him didn’t know enough to know any better. I really thought everyone in there was trust worthy but clearly someone is a little shady. They did return the gun and apologized for the «confusion» only offered his mom store credit which to me was rude because pulling something like that doesn’t deserve my business.