# 5.3 Update out in the Amazon App Store **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 9, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update-out-in-the-amazon-app-store/67579 "2020-12-09T10:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![NerdieBirdie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/nerdiebirdie/32/103793_2.png) [@NerdieBirdie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/NerdieBirdie)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update-out-in-the-amazon-app-store/67579/14 "2020-12-09T17:44:18Z")
> [@ButtStallion](#): > > TL;DR Update doesn’t seem horrible. Little cash grabby, but brings it more in line with other games. Not intrusive but won’t make the players who have been looking for a big content update happy. Arena got some nice updates. Still not sure where Warband comes into play. If this were a one-off thing, I’d be totally fine with it. Games like this absolutely need to make money, and GoW is _still_ comparatively f2p-friendly. But let’s take a look at the updates we’ve been getting for a long time now. **5.2** - Modified the awful Arena to an Arena that is, at best, slightly more playable, and at worse, less playable - New Arena event which most people can’t stand and is a huge time sink - Flash offers for doing this time-sink, tiny reward gamemode **5.1** - New kingdom upgrades which are ridiculously expensive, allowing them to incentivize paying for new Book currency **5.0** - Campaigns comprised of time/resource sink and little/no reward for f2p players - Temporarily paywalled Mythics, pets, weapons, etc - Notably, this obvious time/resource/money sink was _the only notable feature for the “major” 5.0 update_ **4.9** - Daily deals - Shop adjustments - Again, these are the only notable features of this update **4.8** - World Events, which everyone LOVES! Right…? - Less of the old, boring events which no one likes, such as Tower of Doom… _sarcasm intensifies_ **4.7** - Epic Tasks **4.6 - the last update I was really excited for** - New Explore system - Medal system - Elite levels Point of this list being that few, if any, of the last _several_ updates have had much meat to them. It’s been very much focused on making players pay with their time, resources, and cash. Hearing that 5.3 is no different is a letdown. An expected letdown, but a letdown nonetheless. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update-out-in-the-amazon-app-store/67579)._