A thread on r/GTA6unmoderated this week asked a simple question, what do you actually want out of GTA 6 cheat codes, and the answers say a lot about how this community feels heading into the game. There’s real nostalgia here, but there’s also real suspicion. People aren’t just dreaming about flying cars anymore. They’re wondering if Rockstar will even let them have fun for free.
The San Andreas Classics Still Hit Hardest
Start with the nostalgia, because that’s clearly where the thread’s heart is. The most upvoted reply just listed the old San Andreas staples: spawn a cool car, health and armor, a quick 250k in the bank, weapon tiers, flying cars, exploding traffic, NPCs that follow you around. Nothing fancy, just the classics. The flying cars cheat in particular got its own little tribute thread, with one commenter recalling launching a car at absurd speed clean across the map and over the military base. That’s the kind of memory this series was built on, and it’s clear a chunk of the fanbase just wants that same chaos back, not a reinvention of it.
Why Fans Keep Bringing Up Saints Row
But a decent number of people want the series to steal from somewhere else entirely. Several commenters pointed to Saints Row’s cheat menu as the real gold standard, name-checking specific ones like Big Head, Itty Bitty, Car Mass Hole, and the infamous Evil Cars, where every vehicle on the map turns homicidal. One user described making a whole game out of it with a friend: trying to walk from one end of the map to the other with every car actively trying to run them down, calling it more fun than the actual campaign. That’s a much better pitch for a cheat code than “unlimited ammo,” and it’s telling that GTA’s own most-loved format (San Andreas) still gets outvoted by a rival series’ menu when people talk about what they actually want.
The Money Cheat Debate Splits the Thread
The less fun part of the thread is the money-cheat argument, and it split almost evenly. One camp insists a money cheat will ruin the single-player experience before it starts. The counter-argument was blunt and, honestly, hard to beat: if you don’t like it, don’t use it. Someone pointed out that a cash cheat didn’t ruin RDR2, and that comparison actually holds up. Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped with a full menu of story-mode cheats, gold nugget infinite money among them, unlocked only after you’d finished the game once, entirely optional, entirely separate from the online economy. It’s the same balancing act GTA fans are now asking Rockstar to repeat: give single-player players the option, keep it walled off from anything competitive.
The Monetization Worry Lurking Underneath
That RDR2 comparison also feeds the thread’s darker undercurrent, worry about monetization. One comment argued flatly that this isn’t the Rockstar people remember, pointing to paid cosmetics already announced for single-player as proof cheats might get locked behind a purchase. Someone pushed back that RDR2 got the same doom predictions over its online mode and turned out fine, and that nothing about GTA 6 has actually confirmed microtransactions in the story campaign. Still, the joke about GameShark versus Shark Cards landed for a reason. This fanbase has been burned by GTA Online’s economy for over a decade, and that history is doing a lot of the talking now, even when nobody in the thread has any actual info to go on.
The Wish List, and One Genuinely Good Idea
Mixed into all of that is the usual cheat-code wish list chaos: gold pedestrians, mosquito swarms, walk-on-water, riot mode, invincibility tied to unique cop reactions. One commenter had a genuinely smart idea buried in there, wanting the ability to keep a clean save alongside a cheats-enabled one instead of being forced to pick a lane. Whether Rockstar builds anything close to that menu is anyone’s guess. But the appetite for it, judging by 131 comments arguing over the details, isn’t going anywhere.
