# 5.4 Update (Patch Notes) **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [March 23, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-4-update-patch-notes/69151 "2021-03-23T23:43:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 40
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 4:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-4-update-patch-notes/69151/40 "2021-03-24T04:00:57Z")
> [@5.3 Update out in the Amazon App Store](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update-out-in-the-amazon-app-store/67579/14): > > 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… I’ll add this here for reference of the game’s direction and add a new bullet to the list. **5.4** - Next-gen support (nice) - Tiered real money flash offers - New spell shapes and color combos - Lycanthropy debuff added Generally still following the “monetization over all else” strategy which stemmed from around the time of 4.7. I guess it’s nice to see a new debuff and some fun little spell options, but, as has become the norm, this new content would hardly be enough to warrant an update in many games in this genre. Disappointed as usual, but hey, at least I don’t get excited for new updates anymore and my hopes don’t end up in the gutter. And hey, it’s better than 4.9. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-4-update-patch-notes/69151)._