Fancy a spot of high-quality space adventuring in Star Citizen? Well, I hope patience is one of your virtues, because it could take days to download.<\/p>\n
According to the developers of the stupidly-successful crowd-funded space sim, the final game will be delivered at around 100GB<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n As the game is download-only, it’s a gut-punch for anyone who has a less-than-stellar Internet connection. Like, say, basically everyone in South Africa.<\/p>\n To put this into perspective, data from the Ookla Household Value Index shows that South Africa sits on the lower side of things when it comes to average download speeds.<\/p>\n At the country’s average download speed of 6.8Mbps (which is optimistic, at best), you’re looking at around 33 hours of downloading<\/strong> for a 100GB file.<\/p>\n Granted, if you have a Telkom LTE connection<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0which topped a recent survey at around 70.8Mbps – that can be reduced to just over 3 hours.<\/p>\n However,\u00a0you would still have to pay the data costs, which would amount to about\u00a0R1,800<\/strong> for the 60GB+60GB\u00a0bundle data bundle\u00a0– so that\u00a0might not\u00a0be the\u00a0best way to go.<\/p>\n In terms of download speeds, though, the opposite is also true: if you hit 2Mbps, you’ll be waiting 110 hours, or close to 5 days, to get your hands on the title.<\/p>\n Add the fact that 100GB is enough to smash through the biggest ADSL data caps<\/a><\/strong>, and some lower-end uncapped fair-use limits<\/a><\/strong>, and Star Citizen quickly becomes one of the most laborious games to get your hands on in SA.<\/p>\n But the craziness doesn’t end there, of course. Developer Cloud Imperium also noted that the game’s patches are also going to be quite large.<\/p>\n With each patch containing hundreds of assets, at around 200MB each, patches could be between 2-6GB in size.<\/p>\n If there’s a patch that requires 30-40% of the assets to be re-downloaded, patches could hit as much as 20GB.<\/p>\n Xbox One games coming to HoloLens<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Destruction that will blow your mind (and your space ship)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nMore gaming news<\/h3>\n