I love playing airsoft, it’s such a fun game but I have to admit that over the last couple of years I’m enjoying it less and less. It coincides with the drop in price of airsoft guns (due first to loop holes in the laws, then the regulations changing), at first I thought it’d be a good thing as it would open up airsoft to a larger community of players which I had hoped that would lead to a larger variety of games but instead what we have are a bunch of hot head divas along with a shit load of politics…
Perhaps the new players haven’t matured yet past basic run and gun skirmishes, now that there’s anything wrong with those games but after a while mindless mayhem gets a bit boring. Also along with the influx of new players are cheaters, god I haven’t seen so many cheaters in airsoft before and it’s getting worse. I mean non calls happen and we’re all guilty of not calling hits, I understand that but the blatant cheating is getting out of hand. It’s no longer lone players but groups which totally sucks the fun out of the game. Luckily this primarily seems to be a problem in local skirmishes and hasn’t affected mil sims yet but it’s getting pretty bad.
If it weren’t for the guys on the team I think I would have quit airsoft by now because frankly I don’t need this bull shit in my life. I get enough politics at work, I don’t need it in my hobby either. Even so with that said I think I’m going to branch into other areas to fill my time as airsoft is leaving me more and more frustrated.
