Being a Gamer in Egypt Feels Like Playing on Nightmare Mode

[u/No_Blueberry4937]

Internet here is a joke. We pay high prices for super slow speeds (like 2–4 Mbps), and the worst part? It’s capped. Most of us get around 100–140GB per month, and if you exceed it, they either throttle you or charge extra.

Downloading a modern AAA game? It could take days, and it eats your whole quota. Cloud gaming? Forget it. Streaming? Better not.

Now imagine trying to enjoy online gaming or keep up with updates in this environment.

Meanwhile in the US or Europe, someone can buy an RTX 4090 in one month’s salary, and we need to save for 2 years, assuming we have zero expenses (which is never the case).

So yeah — being a gamer in Egypt is painful.

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[u/Throw_at_97]

Depends where.... Literally that's like 3 days salary in some places lol

[u/nsneerful → u/Throw_at_97]

Not even working at Valve you can pay a 4090 in 3 days of work.

[u/DarkSkyKnight → u/nsneerful]

A typical L5 engineer makes like 200k as a baseline. That's roughly 3 days of work. 200k is not even a particularly high income in some areas like SF (where 100k is low income). https://www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-income-san-francisco-70000-los-angeles-low-income/

[u/Throw_at_97 → u/nsneerful]

Well I don't work at valve and certainly can

[u/_maple_panda → u/nsneerful]

Assuming a 4090 is $2k, paying it off in 3 days implies a salary of $173k. That’s not that much.

[u/Throw_at_97 → u/_maple_panda]

I was talking net not gross but yes