Dreams Early Access Officially Opens on 16th April

Why not announce that during the State of Play 🤔

@RedMan33 Wouldn't have stopped the crybabies.

So hyped. I can't wait.

@Gamer4Lyfe probably not but some people can't be pleased

''However, the Guildford-based developer ensures that there will be enough digital units to go around''

We've heard that before

How can there be limited quantities, it's digital?

How much can we actually do with this? Can we share our games?

Do we need PS+ for this?

And there's no pre-order possible, right? It just goes live on the 16th and that's when you buy it I presume?

@rjejr ''Do we need PS+ for this?''

Good question!

Confused,can I buy this early access on my countrys ps store,or only the USA store?

Game isn't my cup of tea but am so glad it's finally coming out (at least in some form). Really hope it delivers and can't wait to see what people come up with!

I hope the extensive music creator I saw demoed at PSX 2017 is in this early access version. I'd buy it just to tinker around with that.

No brainier, instant purchase 👍

@Octane "Good question!"

Thanks. If as sammy says it doesn't require it I may buy it. If it isn't sold out before I wake up. But I need them to say it as I don't have PS+ right now and I won't as long as they stick to their 2 games I don't want per month rule at $60. Big bait & switch and nobody bats an eye. I remember when they dropped themes and avatars on the PS3 and people were complaining. For the 10 year anniversary next year they'll probably just offer up a big PS+ 10 theme, no games.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2014/03/talking_point_are_we_starting_to_expect_too_much_from_playstation_plus

@get2sammyb limited quantities <> forever

Obviously they don't want to sell the Early Access AFTER the full game comes out. I even commented on that fact in a previous article, that this would need to be a limited time event. But they don't say anything about it being time limited, everything they say is quantity limited. That's two very different things, it's not just semantics. They should just give dates, available April 16 - April 30. Simple. That takes care of the forever problem. Limited quantities could mean by the time people wake up on April 16th it's already sold out.

Though in fairness, and in seeing both sides of the story, it really should be limited in quantities, to about 90 million. Just generate 90m codes and say no more after that will be created. That seems fair for something digital. No reason to say unlimited when it really isn't, 90m should work.

@AdamNovice "Obviously MM don't want to overload the servers."

What other games do you know of that sell limited quantities digitally? How many copies do Call of Duty sell? Or GTAV? How many of those had to have limited quantities to keep from overloading the servers? FIFA? This isn't another free demo for them to screw up, they are charging people money this time. If they want to make it a closed beta then just say so, just say it's closed. And make it free.

Charging people to buy something that there is a fake limited amount of just smacks of desperation to get people to buy it day 1. Just say how long or how many. They already had the demo, they should know what their servers can and can't handle by now. Wasn't that the whole purpose of the demo?

@rjejr If it goes live at midnight I may just buy it right then. If it's something silly like 4am, I'll give it a try as soon as I wake up.

@Octane April 16th is a Tuesday so I guess it will just go live when the store update goes live, 4PM, 5PM, 6PM, whenever. At least I think that's still the way it works, Tuesday late afternoon through early evening, it's been awhile since I waited for it to drop.

Hopefully they were smart enough to set aside a certain amount per territory.

Good luck.

@rjejr That should be around midnight for me. I'll look it up what the exact time is.

@Octane "around midnight for me"

I thought each region was it's own time, for awhile I know EU was a different day.

Great news, it’s finally coming.
Dreams really looks special.

If we buy early access,will we be able to download other peoples creations? Or is that only in the full game?

@rjejr In that case I have no idea. I'm usually not the type that sits eagerly waiting for a game to appear on the store. I just buy it some time on launch day, or after. So I have no idea when the games are supposed to go live. Maybe @get2sammyb knows?

Can't wait to try it, I just want to play others people dreams

@RedMan33 Yeah, sony is so weird sometimes, they should postpone state of play for a couple days.

@get2sammyb Thanks,and available to download on the 16th on greek store?

@get2sammyb Thanks, So I assume all I have to do on my part is wait for it to become 12 am april 16,and the buy button shows up,and no paying extra for full release?

I have a feeling this 29.99 price is only for people who buy it early access.I will probably be 49.99 later.

@AdamNovice "probably don't want to take any chances"

Well they should explain it better then. Surely they know how many codes there are. Is it 50,000? 1 million? Is it going to be available for 2 hours, 2 days or 2 weeks? They already know they screwed up w/ the demo, at least 3 of us on here should have received one but we didn't, so they need to be proactive this time around.

If it's available for 2 weeks then fine, but if they shut it down after 45 minutes that's not going to go over well. The time for hedging was with the demo, not when it goes on sale for $30.