Expect 100 GB Install Size, 6 GB Patches For Star Citizen
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Depending on whether you are a tower or notebook, gamer, then install size is a problem. I've got the largest disk drive available in the most powerful MBP, and this thing sounds like it will start at 10% of my space and grow. That's pretty insane, I'm not sure if all my installed games across two OS's consume that much space.Pinkamena said:
Hopefully this is all smoke and no fire as both the file and patch sizes will be problematic for many people.
Jesus Christ and to think I said the new Hitman will eat my disk space....
I really need to update my PC...
I really need to update my PC...
The deal was $90/month for unlimited calls, net, Fetch and a tablet. Big win for me, even got them to add the 100mb/s package for free, just paying $10 for unlimited mobile calls (because my grandparents are the ones that use the home phone and the rest of us use mobiles). I hear good things about iinet but they don't offer cable and after being spoilt with 100mb cable I can't drop back to ADSL speedsEvil Smurf said:
That would take me a day to download... It's doable, and I don't have to worry about a cap, but why is it so big? I get that the game has amazing graphics, but isn't a fairly sizable portion of the game just space?
If the game turns out to be amazing (I'm doubtful) I will certainly pick it up, but it really sucks for the people who have to deal with download limits. It just seems like a bit of a middle finger to what could very well be a large portion of their backers. But hey, they've already got their money so that doesn't really matter.
Maybe I'm just too pessimistic, but I tend to assume the worst about pretty much every game developer.
If the game turns out to be amazing (I'm doubtful) I will certainly pick it up, but it really sucks for the people who have to deal with download limits. It just seems like a bit of a middle finger to what could very well be a large portion of their backers. But hey, they've already got their money so that doesn't really matter.
Maybe I'm just too pessimistic, but I tend to assume the worst about pretty much every game developer.
This isn't too surprising. I'm sure everything will be in high-res textures and the polygon counts of each individual ship are insane. They keep adding more and more ships as well.
I will be interested in seeing how it all turns out. I guess we will see the results of when a developer is given a ton of money and doesn't have a publisher telling them what they have to do to make sure that the produce has mass appeal.
Personally I don't think I will be able to play it for a while after it comes out, I definitely need to upgrade my PC first. But at this rate who knows when it will be out. Maybe in 2 years 100GB won't seem like very much anymore. 30-40GB games are become much more common.
I will be interested in seeing how it all turns out. I guess we will see the results of when a developer is given a ton of money and doesn't have a publisher telling them what they have to do to make sure that the produce has mass appeal.
Personally I don't think I will be able to play it for a while after it comes out, I definitely need to upgrade my PC first. But at this rate who knows when it will be out. Maybe in 2 years 100GB won't seem like very much anymore. 30-40GB games are become much more common.
I like how people are surprised by this. Remember all those stories about how each individual ship had millions of polygons? And remember how they passed stretch goals almost daily at one point to add more ships? This was inevitable.
It's well over double my family's internet cap. Oh dears. Looks like I'll be passing on it for a while. Ah well, tech will eventually pass well beyond this where we won't think twice about a download like that. It always does.
It's well over double my family's internet cap. Oh dears. Looks like I'll be passing on it for a while. Ah well, tech will eventually pass well beyond this where we won't think twice about a download like that. It always does.
Wow you poor American's. When I bought a new HDD for my steam collection (575GB) I just uninstalled everything and re-downloading it took less than a day.
Well as long as the game has an install manager/launcher so that the game's installation download can be suspended and continue at will then that seems okay but it is still a crazy size. It'd just take days for some people to download but as long as the medium it's received through doesn't require you to restart the download every time its cut off or stopped then it won't be anymore than a boring wait.
I also have a cap, 2 TB cap but a cap none the less... Never gone above 450 GB though...Nimcha said:This thread mostly serves to make me realize there are still people with data-caps. I feel for you, bros
Eh. I'm not surprised, given the absurd level of detail the ships in that game have.
It doesn't bother me. 100 gb is a lot, and that would tax my 1gb main drive a little, but... Whatever.
Besides which I have unlimited internet.
Sure 100 gigs is a big download, but I'm sure I've had worse. the MMO I sometimes play routinely seems to shove 3+ gb patches my way too. So...
This kind of stuff is why I try and avoid capped internet plans like the plague though.
It's not even that I would necessarily ever hit my cap, just the stress of knowing I have one, and whether or not I might exceed it at some point that puts me off...
It doesn't bother me. 100 gb is a lot, and that would tax my 1gb main drive a little, but... Whatever.
Besides which I have unlimited internet.
Sure 100 gigs is a big download, but I'm sure I've had worse. the MMO I sometimes play routinely seems to shove 3+ gb patches my way too. So...
This kind of stuff is why I try and avoid capped internet plans like the plague though.
It's not even that I would necessarily ever hit my cap, just the stress of knowing I have one, and whether or not I might exceed it at some point that puts me off...