Download Creations to Use Offline
Basically just saving a local copy of any creation/dream to my system to access anytime. It would also allow you to play multiplayer dreams without a second psn account.
Speaking of playing multiplayer dreams, I'm assuming that's how people do it, right? Because if I bring a guest in, it just takes me to offline mode.
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To your second question, each player has to be signed in to a free PSN account. I don't know how that compares to other online games though. Maybe it's a requirement set by Sony.
If not, my suggestion for Mm would be more like, just allow local players to play dreamiverse games without using online multiplayer (which is impossible right now anyway).
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Maybe they're hesitant to implement something like this to avoid people hacking offline games? Once something is on your hard drive, with enough knowledge and time it could be modded and maybe even republished.
BUT. Maybe this could help with creating actual open world games, where you could set your Dreams game to be download only, which means you could load (stream?) assets that are not in the scene, but on your hard drive mid gameplay.
Right now there is probably a limit on how big dreams can be, so that the 'user experience' doesn't suffer aka 'youtube of gaming' experience is assured or maybe Sony says they can't force they players to download big files? (> see file limit 1GB). But what if the player consents to download a 2GB Dream? Shouldn't he have that option?
The other thing is that we already can stamp things from the dreamiverse, but only in create mode. I thought about having a play mode stamp gadget, but that would probably really stomp the user experience to the ground, because internet speeds can vary. So saving a Dream with additional assets on the hard drive would be perfect for open world games.
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Everything you play is first downloaded and cached. So not sure this would be any different really.
As I understand it, there's a limit of 1 GB files for games to store. Hence the 1GB local creation storage limit. So that may affect things also.
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