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Originally Posted by SuperHog
They had many failed products like the flatline barrels, propane paintball guns, the recent tourney/woodsball Crossover gun...
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The flatline certainly wasn't a failure. It has got to be one of the most popular paintball barrels ever made.
I'd argue that the C3 was never meant to be a commercial success. It was a propane powered pump-gun in an age of ultra-fast, ultra-light HPA powered electropneumatic guns. Like a whole slew of Tippmann products from the first ASA guns to the first full-auto guns like the SMG line to the early cyclone feeder on the Tippmann F/A, the C3 was a sort of test-bed for an innovative idea.
The Crossover is still being produced and sold, so it's hard to label it a failed product.
The Model 98 is the most numerous and widely used paintball gun in the history of the game.
Still, it's entirely arguable that the quality of Tippmann products and the company's capacity for innovation has declined dramatically since the company went from being family owned to corporate owned.
Having said all of that, very few people actually have first hand experience with this product, so we might want to actually hold off judgement until it's actually been released.