PS5 jailbreak dev tells people to just buy GTA 6, says a dump isn't happening
Saw a GamesRadar piece about a PS5 jailbreak developer basically telling anyone holding out hope for a pirated copy of GTA 6 to give it up and buy the game. His read on the situation is that things aren't looking good on that front, and he threw in a bit about how long everyone's already waited for this thing.
Honestly, good. I know the piracy crowd likes to treat every big release as a challenge, but this one was never going to be the easy win they were hoping for. A jailbreak dev saying it himself carries more weight than a thousand forum posts arguing about it.
the waiting part is what got me
That's the line that stuck. People have been waiting since the first trailer dropped back in 2023. Three years of speculation, map threads, fake leaks, the whole circus. And now that we're actually close, some folks are out here planning to not pay for it.
I'm not going to pretend I've never looked at a dodgy download in my life. But this is the biggest game release of the decade, and Rockstar's put in the years. If you can afford a console and a copy, just buy it. Standard Edition's $79.99 and that's the whole thing, you don't need the Ultimate unless you actually want the extras.
the technical side of it
I'm not going to dig into how jailbreaks work or what state the PS5 scene is in, partly because I don't know and partly because it's not the point. The point is a guy who actually understands this stuff is telling people the dump isn't coming. That should end the conversation.
What I will say is the timing makes sense. We're days out from November 19. Anyone still refreshing a piracy forum at this stage is wasting the last week of the hype cycle on something that's not going to happen. Go read a map thread. Watch the Extended Look again. Do something fun with the wait instead.
Dude's warning was basically don't say I didn't tell you, and I figure that's fair enough. The game's right there. Go get it.
Source: GamesRadar+ · Curated content.
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