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Accuracy would be the biggest issue for the price of the rounds. I agree with Slodin, for the cost of the rounds I'd like to see higher accuracy, but unfortunately the nature and physics of the sport kind of prevent that. You'd have better success getting range and accuracy from reballs.
Speaking of effective range, I'd describe it at the range where you can hit a torso with repeatability. I paid $2000 for my gun, but I've got an effective range of 260ft with .30g BBs that I get 4000 for $45.
It's the "paint" part of paintball that hinders performance.
Of course, BBs don't mark the target and it's a huge annoyance when someone doesn't call an awesome shot. But The ability of paintballs to break at their maximum range is going to be lowered as well, just how far CAN you shoot a paintball before it won't break?
On the other side of the fence, there's paintballers that won't call balls that don't break, and some that wipe as well. So we have cheaters on both sides.
There were, way back in the day, 6mm paintballs available for airsoft. But with 470 round highcap mags, speed loaders, and the speed at which they get loaded, it just compounded the issue of balls breaking in your equipment.
It really just comes down to whether you want to mark your target or not. Everything else is pretty much the same.
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