The arcade is free. The branding free license fee was just that. You get to remove the v3arcade banner at the bottom of arcade pages. The other stuff were added benefits to branding free subscribers, but were not part of the fee. Please keep that in mind. Supposedly, those fees ended up being donated to a charity.
With that said, I am not happy with the silence either. I too would like news on a new version and author support for existing versions.
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