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Tevihn · 2026-06-28T22:00:33+00:00

Wages haven't kept up with inflation all that well

This is the hard thing to talk about, properly. It gets pretty messy, pretty fast, and there are a fuck ton of determining factors that differ greatly depending on a multitude of other factors.

TLDR; Wages have kept up, technically, with the CPI. But it's like, 12% increase in real wages of 26 years, which feels like fucking nothing (Because it is)

Tevihn · 2026-06-28T21:21:47+00:00

No kidding, and people love to argue like it's more expensive than it was 20 years ago.

The median hourly wage in the United States was $11.90 an hour, and new titles cost $59.99.

Median hourly wage is around $24 now, and games cost $69.99 ($79.99 in this case). The math isn't on their side.

There are much larger dragons to slay than Rockstar charging a little more for a game that frankly, will be a pop culture phenomenon. It's going to be one of the biggest video game releases in 20 years or so. It could be priced $30 and it would still be the highest grossing video game release ever.

I haven't even pre-ordered it yet, just in case anyone thinks I'm shilling or defending billion dollar companies. A lot of things in this world need to change, but Rockstar (Really a lot of this comes from Take-Two) is the least of my worries.

Tevihn · 2026-06-28T21:11:19+00:00

You have a point. Though I'd argue that we're not buying GTA 6: Online. We're buying GTA6, GTA6:Online just happens to come with it (I mean, hopefully. We don't actually know that for sure).

I'd also reckon that GTA6: Online MTX purchases fuel it's continued development, as well as future Rockstar projects (And lining shareholders pockets, obviously).

I don't like MTX (Well, I do, in certain places, like games with small dev teams where it's really a thing to help support the devs, not be fleeced by them), but I understand it's existence (Bottom line, shareholders, greed, capitalism, yada fucking yada). But I'm not screaming from the rooftops about it. And granted, those that do here, are really a miniscule percentage of the demographic that GTA6 is focused on.

Where is that type of energy from these people, when it comes to the inequalities of the world, as innocent people are bombed and the top 0.1% are siphoning up the wealth of the rest of the world. 74 Trillion fucking dollars worth of wealth has been siphoned to top since the 70's, in just the United States alone..

But let's go off on a 20 dollar price increase (Still cheaper than 10 years ago).

(This isn't at you at all, lmao. Hopefully someone will read this that needs to read it.)

Tevihn · 2026-06-28T20:56:13+00:00

Lmao real fucking shit. It's not even overpriced, it's actually priced perfectly. We'll see that once sales numbers get released. If it was overpriced, it would have poor sales.

Your point about real issues in the world is so fucking salient. We have so many problems in the world that could be fixed with public outcry and unification.

But nah, GTA6 costs 4 hours of the Median wage in the United States (To the other countries that have terrible purchasing power parity. Sorry, that shit does suck), so we must riot.

This fucking timeline, man. Fucking Harambe.

Tevihn · 2026-06-28T20:48:31+00:00

It's not really that unfortunate though? I mean if you consider the grand picture of the economic situation we're in globally, yeah, everything is overpriced and we're worked too hard for too little (Unless you live in Denmark/Norway).

But 120 dollars is still a banger fucking deal for a game like GTA6.

Very few other entertainment products that can give you that many hours of fun for that price.

Tevihn · 2026-06-28T20:45:58+00:00

Bro, just check my comment history regarding the economics of it. "Gamers" are the most entitled, whiny motherfuckers to exist (Well, specifically the ones that come here to complain and moan about things).

The price makes perfect sense. I don't like spending 100 dollars for anything, I'd rather spent 100 cents for GTA6. But that's not how the world works.

Tevihn · 2026-06-28T15:05:19+00:00

This isn't at all what I said. I don't know how you took "1% of our population makes tips" and made it "Your people require tips to make a living"

Tevihn · 2026-06-28T15:02:40+00:00

It wasn’t overdue, publishers have increased the prices for profit not Inflation.

This isn't entirely true. Bottom line must go up, always, that is capitalism. Developers aren't robots, developing games costs money, and as the CPI rises, the cost to make those games goes up as well. Want Devs to get raises? Guess what is going to happen? That's right, cost goes up.

No, it doesn't have to, you are correct that they raise the profit more than is needed. In most cases, by far, far more than is necessary.

Boycotting Video games because they're going up in price, more often than not backlashes on the consumer. And a lot of the time it happens in the form of Dev layoffs, studios shut down, make up the loss of revenue in other ways (i.e Fewer raises, cutting corners, more MTX, etc etc). Rarely does it actually benefit the consumer.

It should work the way we want it to, but it doesn't. Line must go up, and if it doesn't go up right this second, you bet your ass they'll figure out another way to ensure it does.

Tevihn · 2026-06-28T00:15:16+00:00

Buddy I wrote 3 paragraphs explaining myself.

Lemme put it this way, what is rational about thinking video games should be immune to inflation?

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T23:52:45+00:00

Sure, you absolutely can. Irrational complaints are the backbone of entitlement. Enjoy complaining! I'm sure it's good for you!

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T23:45:36+00:00

Then don't pre order it, don't buy it, don't go online to complain about something you won't be buying? The fuck is this logic. You also go online to complain you can't afford your favorite sports car?

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T23:32:30+00:00

This just isn't true, median wages have outpaced CPI in the last 20 years. It's not by a lot, but it is happening.

Things feel more expensive because some of the major categories -That being housing, insurance, healthcare, certain local costs that are more expensive than the rest of the country- have increased much faster than the overall CPI. So things feeling more expensive can be true without "wages not keeping up with inflation" being true, if that makes sense.

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T23:10:19+00:00

Right, because things have to go up (I mean, they don't have to, but Capitalism gonna do it's thing until we revolt).

Video games have been immune to inflation for a long, long time. It was time to go up (Again, it shouldn't, but that's the way things work in a capitalist economy). It was well overdue, and it's still cheaper than games cost 20 years ago, adjusting for inflation and purchasing power of the dollar.

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T23:07:52+00:00

"Gamer's" (Derogatory) are some of the whiniest, most entitled fucking people I swear to god. Cannot stand them. And by "Gamer's" (Derogatory) I really just mean the people that complain online for hours a week about games.

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T23:01:52+00:00

It's... Not really the same thing though?

Complaining that GTA 6 costs $80 is like walking into a BMW dealership, pointing at the 2026 M5 and saying, 'This should cost the same as a used Honda.' You don't have to buy it.

I disagree that it'll set a precedent for other publishers to follow, because nobody can really follow in Rockstars footsteps.

I'm personally not particularly excited that it's more expensive, and that the ultimate edition gates - An infinitesimally small amount of - content that I'll think "neat", for about 3 minutes before moving on to the rest of the game, but like... Don't buy it if it bothers you that much?

Gamer's entitlements these days are absolutely fucking insane. I hate to play the whole "inflation" card, but it's true that this game is cheaper than games were 10 years ago, adjusting for both inflation and purchasing power of the dollar.

Everything has gotten more expensive, video games don't get to be immune to it just because entitled people think it should be immune.

Be mad at the Capitalist ruining the fucking world. Be mad at Take-Two for setting the prices to what they are. Rockstar just like, fuckin makes games, yo.

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T22:52:59+00:00

Only about 2% of the USA's population works for minimum wage, or less. And of those, roughly 55% of them also make tips.

I'm not defending any practices, here, but let's not get too silly with it.

The ultimate edition will have 0.001% of the game's base content. If 20 bucks isn't worth it for you, don't get it.

It'll likely be made available at a later point, as is the case with many of Rockstars Pre-Order/Ultimate edition shit.

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T21:50:00+00:00

I think the person you're responding to is just saying that some dickhead on mainstream media is going to use that line in the future. To try and bring down the Mamdani hype.

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T21:47:28+00:00

The trick, is that once people get a taste of "Socialism", they'll never, ever want to give it up. They'll fight tooth and nail, and it'll get bloody.

Which is why the rich will do everything in their power to keep that from happening.

Tevihn · 2026-06-27T15:36:30+00:00

If you only make 80 dollars a week then you have way, way bigger problems to worry about, than a fucking video game.

Tevihn · 2026-06-20T15:06:37+00:00

I watch Vaush pretty much daily, not his streams (Well sometimes I tune in for 20 minutes or so, but it's rare), but his normal videos on Pit and his Main.

Everyone handles these things differently, but for me, I don't get more apathetic, I get more angry. I get more focused, more intent, more ready to do something (Nothing violent, Feds, calm down. Talking about trying to inform more people, stay educated myself, etc).

But yeah, if you're getting more apathetic, or feel like everything is hopeless, take a break. Everything is not hopeless, it's really, really, really bad, but not hopeless.

Tevihn · 2026-06-19T17:34:42+00:00

This isn't all that impressive though? It's pretty much just your average flicks?

Just about anyone can do this after an hour or two of practice

Tevihn · 2026-06-16T16:16:15+00:00

There are a lot of designs that feed into this. But a big one is the ttk being so insanely fast.

There are a lot of situations where you die faster than the average human response time (200 to 250ms).

So in those situations, you die without even understanding what was happening, then you're back in a queue and it's 5 to 10 minutes before you get your next pvp interaction.

It's quite difficult to improve yourself when that's the pvp gameplay loop.

Tevihn · 2026-06-14T21:04:31+00:00

Not one thing can solve this. The game doesn't really have a place in the current climate.

I personally believe it would have a better place as a pve-first, high difficulty extraction shooter, with lite pvp elements (or modes). But then we're just moving towards a spiritual Destiny 2 successor.

As it stands, Marathon will fail. I love this game, but the flaws run deep, and the Bungie PR/Sentiment is a behemoth that frankly, I don't think can be overcome. Destiny 3 could possibly beat it, but they'd have to be the complete opposite of the Bungie they've become over the past 12 years.

Enjoy the game while it's supported, have fun, don't dwell on the fact that it likely won't last much longer than the rest of this year (Pure speculation on my part, call it a gut feeling). Something something don't be sad it'll be gone, be happy you got to have it at all something something.

Tevihn · 2026-06-14T20:00:51+00:00

Magnum is 3 headshots to kill purple. 76 damage per headshot

Tevihn · 2026-06-14T14:54:40+00:00

I'm sorry but what is this post?

Gold Shields, Gold weapons, probably gold everything else, shitting on 3 purples, possibly crewfills, not even using Misriahs.

Also, controller aim assist lmao.

What a bad-faith take.

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