As expected, that "totally normal" Dreams live stream has revealed the start date of the long awaited beta test. To cut to the chase, the Dreams beta will go live from tomorrow, Wednesday 19th December. However, that's only for fans who've subscribed to Media Molecule's newsletter. Don't bother rushing to the studio's website to sign up, by the way -- only those who were subscribed before today are eligible.
For everyone else, you'll be able to sign up for beta access from 4th January 2019. This more open phase of the beta will begin on the 8th, so you'll have a few days to put your name down. We'll bring you the relevant links once they're available. The beta will also run for over a month, so there's a huge amount of time to create some cool stuff. The closing date is 21st January 2019, so even if you miss out on the first phase of the beta, there will still be plenty of time to give it a go.
The beta client will be approximately 4GB to download. Unfortunately, it doesn't have PSVR support, but we know that'll be in the game when it launches. On the bright side, you won't need PlayStation Plus to try the beta.
Those are the main points to take away from the announcement. In summary, a Dreams beta is coming, with limited access for newsletter subscribers for a couple of weeks before it opens up to more players at the start of January. What do you plan on making in Dreams? Will you take part in the beta test? Get your thinking caps on in the comments below.
[source twitch.tv, via resetera.com, mediamolecule.com]
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I hope the beta includes PSVR support
You can still sign up over here: https://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/newsletter (at least, I hope you can!)Edit: signing up now won't work they confirmed.
@Stragen8 No PSVR support in the beta.
@Stragen8 No PSVR support in the beta the woman said in the live twitch stream.
Looks like you need an invitation from being a receiver of their newsletter but it seemed like it may be open to the public starting January 8th so about 2 weeks before they shut it all down on January 21.
They said they would put up a beta FAQ soon with all the relevant info.
Wow, land of the quick typing ninjas in here. 😂
@Stragen8 it's been confirmed it doesn't. But the full game will apparently have VR support day one.
They just said that signing up now doesn't work.
I'm actually disappointed they didn't disappoint again. In a good way this time. Can't wait!
@teknium_ Well, apparently not... that's a bummer. Won't be playing the beta in that case...
@Octane I signed up about 15mins ago and got the newsletter confirmation email...site not working now?
The main reason I signed up for the news letter last month was in the hopes of a beta invite. Glad it worked. It seems the site is down now.
@teknium_ No, you can sign up now, you'll still get the newsletter, but apparently it won't work for the beta. Only people who signed up yesterday or earlier will be invited.
Great news! I will try the beta in January then, but it will be interesting to hear the first impressions.
Not complaining as its only a couple weeks to open beta, but how MM have handled this hasn't been great, also my fault for not signing up for the news letter ages ago but following MM on twitch and on their website since LBP(ps3) I thought I might have got my bases covered
Still kinda sux that open beta isnt this year. But at least its relatively soon.
@rjejr do you still drink Wilkins coffee 😂.word up son
ah fair enough, seems likely that the open beta should be less buggy than the closed beta, so silver linings and all that. Looking forward to giving it a whirl.
Noooo 😖😖 goes and signs up for newsletters to publishers of future games he wants uuugh
Nice. Looking forward to trying it out next month.
@teknium_ They just confirmed that only people who signed up before December 7 will get an invite tomorrow. The rest will get a chance to get an invite starting on January 8. They'll start sending out invites starting on that day, but they can't guarantee everyone will be able to join the beta. I'm not a fan of the way they're handling this to be fair. They've been teasing it this entire year, they could've told us any time it wasn't strictly open to everyone, and you needed a newsletter subscription.
https://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/article/dreams_creator_beta_faq
I'm not too bothered by not being among the first to try out Dreams. I've got enough spam mail to deal with.
At least the beta will be in the hands of some before the end of the year, so I'm happy to have been proven wrong. But as @Octane said, the way Media Molecule handled the roll out of the beta is kinda messed up. It makes me wonder just how the marketing strategy for this game will play out. I hope, due to the nature of the game, that MM lets beta participants retain their progress when the full game releases.
works for me, i have no delusions that i would be able to create anything worthy, so i'd just be waiting a week or two for all the creative types to present their wares anyway.
I’m interested in this “game”, but not enough to care about missing a beta. I finally wrapped Fallout 4, so I’m moving on to Red Dead. Probably Persona 5 or Yakuza 0 after.
Am I the only one ignoring what this is? 😲
I'm still waiting to do my playstation story. I'll never get a shot at this
this will just be as niche as project spark on xbox
No email beta code sent and I fit all the criteria. I sent an email hopefully they will respond. It sounded like the codes would be sent today possibly, but I could be wrong and they will send me one tomorrow.
@Octane had they done that, they would have had way more people playing the beta than they want. They probably prefer the fans give it a chance and then everyone else.
@manu0 Dreams has far more going for it then Project Spark ever did. And it will have a much more dedicated community early on cos of LittleBigPlanet.
@Turismo4GT I don't see how it's "messed up" they want to do a slow rollout first and probably giving they core fanbase first go since you had to sign up for the newsletter. If anything it's a beta done properly compared to other companies who their idea of a beta is actually a demo.
@Quintumply does anyone on the team have beta access?
@themcnoisy I don't it will matter cos the game is under NDA, MM aren't keen to share creations yet.
At this point the game is coming out just so Sony recoups Some of the cost. There is no way they will even come close to breaking even
@jly1987 That magic 8-ball must be something.
I can wait until January, honestly we've been waiting this long, what's another month?
Part of me wishes I could get into the closed beta but, oh well.
Nice! Look forward to wrapping my head around this & making some characters.
@naruball I don't know, I've been watching their streams and following the game for years. Information comes through Twitter, YouTube and Twitch, no need for the newsletter. It's basically spam anyway, I didn't think I'd need it for the beta. Had they said it was a closed beta on the other hand...
@andreoni79 yes.
Agreed with earlier comment its a very niche product. Can not see it selling well and has taken far too long to come out
@Kiloman74 I tried to investigate but when I saw the site has 53 news articles about this game (the 1st one published on June 2015) I decided I'd better just wait for the review!
That’s what I’m waiting for too. Really interested in this one! So please don’t mess this one up? Maybe I could make a better project spark.....kidding!
Really excited to try this out at last!
Why is it that whenever there's anything PlayStation related people are always down on it before it's even out?
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