>like there throwing shit against a wall seeing what stick!

Welcome to the business model of every major ball company these days.  Just varies by year/season who dumps the most. 

The more i look at it the more i think Motiv is doing it right by releasing a ball every 45 days.

Well you have to differentiate, you can't lump all the brands together like that.  EBI has 4 brands under their banner, so yeah, if every company releases a couple balls at the same time, which they tend to do, it can be overwhelming.  You have to consider each brand it's own company, being under the same umbrella shouldn't matter.

but like as far as i can tell, other companies only have 1 "batch" of releases, ebi is having 2, and when their's 4 companies of ebi @ 2 balls a brand, thats 16 balls just this summer

Quote from: SVstar34 on August 08, 2017, 09:57:44 AM

The more i look at it the more i think Motiv is doing it right by releasing a ball every 45 days.

i like it, till u think " wow that ball would be good if it were a solid/pearl" of the ball. like i feel like a solid trident would be good based on what others say about the ball(that it gets just a tad too far down lane even after surface adjustments) haha their needs to b a happy medium!

I don't see an issue there because if you need more ball than the Trident, there is the Jackal Ghost or LE. You have to look at motion and reaction, not the name of the ball.

You can't do that though, you have to compare brand to brand.  What's the point then of having 4 separate brands only producing as many balls a year as Motiv does?  Just because Ebonite owns 4 brands, you can't say that Ebonite released 16 balls and Motiv only released 2.  You can say that Track released 4 to Motiv's 2, or you can say Hammer released 4 balls to Motiv's 2, but you can't lump all Ebonite together.  You have to compare brand to brand and their total number of annual releases. 

Roto just released 4 balls kind of all together, but they do that every summer, likely won't see another release until November or December.  They also only supply to demand.  They had to push back the release of the Hot Cell because the demand of the currently produced items plus the preorders of the new stuff has the plant going full tilt.  You can't say they're releasing too much stuff when they can't keep up with the demand as it is. 

Quote from: Luke Rosdahl on August 08, 2017, 10:08:15 AM

Well you have to differentiate, you can't lump all the brands together like that.  EBI has 4 brands under their banner, so yeah, if every company releases a couple balls at the same time, which they tend to do, it can be overwhelming.  You have to consider each brand it's own company, being under the same umbrella shouldn't matter.

but like as far as i can tell, other companies only have 1 "batch" of releases, ebi is having 2, and when their's 4 companies of ebi @ 2 balls a brand, thats 16 balls just this summer

You seem to be missing the point though.  No company puts out all versions of a ball at the same time.  Say the Lock came out and somebody thought a solid Lock would be a great idea, they're going to have to wait for the solid version just like every other company does, has nothing to do with how many balls are released at the same time. 

Quote from: SVstar34 on August 08, 2017, 10:22:14 AM

Quote from: TeeP Nade on August 08, 2017, 10:14:41 AM

Quote from: SVstar34 on August 08, 2017, 09:57:44 AM

The more i look at it the more i think Motiv is doing it right by releasing a ball every 45 days.

i like it, till u think " wow that ball would be good if it were a solid/pearl" of the ball. like i feel like a solid trident would be good based on what others say about the ball(that it gets just a tad too far down lane even after surface adjustments) haha their needs to b a happy medium!

I don't see an issue there because if you need more ball than the Trident, there is the Jackal Ghost or LE. You have to look at motion and reaction, not the name of the ball.

haha i just used the trident as the example!

I really like the way Motiv comes out with new pieces.  Their stuff comes out like every 6 weeks or so!