Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

The client for Roberts Space Industries ’space exploration sim Star Citzen may be a 100 GB download, director of game operations Jeremy Masker posts on the developer’s official forum.

“As I have already said, I would not count on this. The game compression and asset removal is unlikely to yield such high gains that we will be able to reduce our client size to 30-40 GB,” he writes. “The size and number of assets that are left to deliver means that our client size is much more likely to be 100 GB.”

Masker adds that the patch sizes for the could range in size from an indie game to a full AAA release. “Also, yes we are optimizing game patching for speed and to only deliver diffs, but this is unlikely to reduce actual patch size. Again, each patch has 100s of assets, each of these assets are at times 200 MB, this leads to 2-6 GB patches, and if we end up doing a file type re-factor and have to re-download 30-40% of the assets on the hard-drive, then the patch will be 14-20 GB."

The space exploration sim is a shade off raising $75 million, at the time of writing. The game manoeuvred past the $69, $65 and $60 million USD goals over the past couple of months, achieving the title of largest crowdfunded project ever, beyond video games and any campaign on Kickstarter or similar sites to date.

I so risked falling asleep today in class. Looks like not being into coffee has its downsides too.