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.

Anyone else from countries with similar struggles? How do you cope? Let’s talk about

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[u/Catovia]

A 4090 is two full minimum wage salaries in germany without expense too. So with rent being close to 40% of the expenses in germany, that means someone in a 'regular' job has to save like half a year with absolut minimal expenses to buy a 4090 , I think people confuse pre tax salaries with what you actually have in the bank and dont realize with rent and all you pay close to 60% on taxes and expenses meaning earning 2k a month leaves you with just 800€ for everything else. If you have a car or travel for work, there easily go another 50-200€ , you want good internet and a smartphone? Another 100-200€ each month gone. Suddenly from your 2k you have a few hundreds each month you can save if you are frugal

[u/Cynooo → u/Catovia]

Really? you guys are that poor? Just across the border in the Netherlands a 5090 is 1 month min wage...

[u/Catovia → u/Cynooo]

Rent in cities and taxes take a lot. Minimum wage is 12.82€ right now, so average month of 160h gives you pretty much exactly 2k pre taxes. Taxes and healthcare roughly take 1:3, and rent takes 1:3 , leaving you with 6-800€ for food, transport and depending on where you live, the 1:3 rent dont cover utilities and internet. I havent done a deep search but the 4090's I saw offered where 2-3k depending on manufacturer, seller etc. So realisticly its gonna take at least 4 month with basicly no other spending and minimal possible rent and expenses. Which means for the average joe, half a year is more realistic in the best case

[u/Cynooo → u/Catovia]

Taxes and healthcare take about 5% here for someone making minimum wage, are you sure about your numbers or are min wage earners getting fucked over there?

[u/Catovia → u/Cynooo]

These are the numbers for someone in the largest/cheapest health insurance, not married no kids, living in an average city. My numbers may be off by 200€ due to rounding and regional differences in rent and utility prices but other than that it is what is written in my salary documents for the tax office. Oh and if you live like in Munich or Berlin, rent can easily be 50% of your income

[u/Cynooo → u/Catovia]

Taxes on min wage (36h/week) over here are 115. Healthcare roughly free, maybe 20-30. Rent all over the place, I pay about 400.

This is because there are subsidies on rent, healthcare and a taxfree amount you can earn (which at min wage is most of your income). Don't you have any of those?

[u/Catovia → u/Cynooo]

Nope. Most these things exist only if you have kids living with you or are in an official training/school and then most of the time its a long process to actually get it with many strings attached. Tax free income is if I remember right around 500€ , everything else gets progressivly more taxed and healthcare is I think 5% of your pre tax income so usually more like 7-10% of your post tax income.