What is the reason for deleting the Arabic language?
3ali
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How is the Arabic language removed from the game even though it has fans in the Arab world??? Why don't you respect the minority in the game constantly
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Money spent supporting Arabic > money made supporting Arabic. Sucks but that's the golden equation.
Kabam company chooses the easiest solution, not the only one
If keeping the translator for the language is costing the company money, they stop hiring him/her. Choices like that are made to keep a company running.
If more Arabic people would pay Kabam money they would keep translating the language.
And from the looks of it, it is not a personal problem for you. Since you seem to be decently fluent in english.
يجب إيجاد حل أخر غير حذف اللغة العربية فلحد الساعة السبب المطروح غير مقنع
I wanted to give a bit more insight on this topic because I think it warrants a thorough explanation from a more technical angle.
Supporting RTL languages like Arabic means flipping almost the entire UI horizontally. While we have some decent tech to handle this flip; there are often many edge cases where elements get flipped incorrectly and it pretty much just breaks the user interface. This means whenever we create a new screen or modify an existing one we almost inevitably will get a bunch of bugs relating to RTL layout. To fix this we often have to use a bunch of weird hacky workarounds and then make sure these fixes don’t break the game in the LTR format. In addition to this, I am told by our Loc team that there exist many intricacies in the Arabic language, that when pushed into our text components can cause them to not render correctly. This then requires them to go in manually and insert hidden extra characters to make it display correctly.
We have done all of the above over the years because we value our Arabic players but there comes a point where it is no longer worth all of this effort in order to support the language. It genuinely makes me sad to think that there will be players that can no longer enjoy the Contest because we no longer support a language that they know and can fully understand. It’s, unfortunately, one of those things where every day we spend supporting RTL is a day we can’t spend fixing and making other things, and thus it no longer makes sense to support it.