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Media Molecule has announced that it will be ending live support on its impressive PlayStation creative suite game Dreams later this year in an announcement to fans alongside details of an upcoming server migration.
An open letter to the Dreams community declared the following: “As we continue to evaluate and evolve our priorities for the studio and Dreams, we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue live support for Dreams after 1st September, 2023 to shift our focus to an exciting new project.”
The good news is that players will still be able to play, create and share Dreams (projects created in the game) with others after that date, but no more updates will be released for the game, and it also means there’ll be no more community events such as DreamsCom, All Hallow’s Dreams or the Impy Awards.
Media Molecule said the decision to end live support was “certainly not easy” but said they were “incredibly proud of the work we’ve done in developing Dreams – such as our content releases, Create updates and live events – and we are endlessly grateful to the community for their belief and continuous contributions since launch.”
However, most current creations on Dreams should be safe thanks to a server migration coming ahead of the termination of the live service. However, as part of this migration, users will have a limit of what they’re allowed to upload to the Dreams servers – including 5GB of Storage and a maximum of 256 creations. There’ll also be some changes that include the removal of the ability to archive creations – and instead users will be able to delete them entirely instead. You can read about those changes – which will come into effect in ‘Late May’.
Other knock-on effects the live service closure will have include two Creative Imp Quests that will effect a couple of trophies. However, Media Molecule have promised new ways to earn these trophies once the the quests are removed, – however, if you have progress towards these trophies already at the time the live service is cut off, this won’t be retained and you’ll have to start the new trophy unlock process from scratch. Three other trophies will also be modified. There’s more details on that – and the other changes coming – in the full announcement post.
Dreams originally launched on the PlayStation 4 first as an early access game in 2019 before a full release in February of 2020, and included an impressive range of tools for players to create their own experiences – even in PSVR – with the software. Some of the highlights even included fan-remakes of Dead Space, P.T. and an impressive PS1 “demake” of Cyberpunk 2077.
There’s no word yet on what Media Molecule’s “exciting new project” entails just yet, but fans are surely hoping the Little Big Planet studio remains in the realm of allowing us to create our own amazing projects. For now, we’ll have to wait and see.
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