The business of backporting and Decrypting PS4 gamesĬurrently, the highest firmware one can have to Jailbreak their console is 9.00. This brings the question of how these releases happen in the first place. The game is fairly easy to find on piracy platforms Most PS4 games are made available on piracy platforms independently of their original firmware requirements, and in the case of GoW Ragnarok, the game has been available within a day of its release, with pirates rushing to popular warez sites in order to get it. In practice though, this doesn’t seem to stop warez hackers. And in order to Jailbreak a PS4, that console has to be on a lower firmware. But a side effect of this mechanism is that it “limits” piracy: in order to pirate PS4 games, one has to be on a Jailbroken console.

In most cases, these firmware requirements are artificial, and only in place to ensure compatibility with the SDK version it was compiled with. In the case of GoW Ragnarok, this seems to be 9.50 (although some people are reporting it needs 9.60). Sony have a mechanism in place that ensures a minimal firmware is required to run a game. It stands to reason that the game is not only popular among critics and gamers who purchased it, but also pirates.

The PS4 version, although it doesn’t have a metacritic score, is great as well. The PS5 version of God of War Ragnarok sits at an impressive Metacritic score of 94, making it the second-highest-rated new title of the year according to VGC (number 1 being Elden Ring). God of War Ragnarok PS5/PS4 – popular everywhere, including pirate platforms People running on Jailbroken PS4s have been rushing to piracy platforms to download the game. Despite requiring PS4 Firmware 9.50 or above, God of War Ragnarok has been decrypted and “backported” to firmware 9.00 by warez hacker CyB1K.

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