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Oh I didn't expect the arabic players are a lot here. Cool, but not interested as I play from 2012 in the english version, I doubt if I will take a tire to change it to arabic.

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Hello Tanki Online, I have a great suggestion: Add a new language to the game, Arabic, to attract more Arab players and simplify the game. If you'd like Arabic translators, we're ready.

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On 3/15/2025 at 6:21 PM, 0xsalem said:

Hello Tanki Online, I have a great suggestion: Add a new language to the game, Arabic, to attract more Arab players and simplify the game. If you'd like Arabic translators, we're ready.

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On 11/12/2024 at 3:59 PM, SLM said:

Arabic language support is great since the game is very popular among Arab players

 

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[Wry 93]

Almost 10 months later and we still don't know why this topic exist and what was the purpose of it and why such vote has been made. Despite the Arabic language leading the vote by a large margin you went to add the least voted languages Spanish and Portuguese while also continuing to ignore the Arabic community by announcing the game translator recruitment of many other languages but not the Arabic language. So please @Spy can you tell us why?

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On 8/17/2025 at 8:58 PM, Wry said:

Almost 10 months later and we still don't know why this topic exist and what was the purpose of it and why such vote has been made. Despite the Arabic language leading the vote by a large margin you went to add the least voted languages Spanish and Portuguese while also continuing to ignore the Arabic community by announcing the game translator recruitment of many other languages but not the Arabic language. So please @Spy can you tell us why?

Hi there,

The poll was made simply to see what the Forum users think and it has no effect about the decisions the higher ups make. The decisions are made according to the statistics & data that the game developers collect. The Arabic community isn't being ignored as the topic of adding the Arabic language to the game has been brought up several times. Although, adding RTL (Right-to-Left) support is time consuming on top of not being an easy task. The Administration has no control over which languages are being added to the game, and I cannot guarantee when or if the Arabic language will be added to the game.

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On 8/17/2025 at 11:59 PM, Spy said:

The poll was made simply to see what the Forum users think and it has no effect about the decisions the higher ups make. The decisions are made according to the statistics & data that the game developers collect.

Then both the topic and the poll are misleading since most players who did vote thought it will affect the decision of deciding what language to add, otherwise why would you start such topic and poll? just for you to say it was only to see what the forum users think? it does not matter what we think if it won't affect the decision in adding any language in the first place. Implying that this topic and the poll was just made for the sake of curiosity of the admins which is not professional since it does not serve a meaningful purpose and just mislead the community into thinking that it will decide what language will be added to the game next.

On 8/17/2025 at 11:59 PM, Spy said:

as the topic of adding the Arabic language to the game has been brought up several times. Although, adding RTL (Right-to-Left) support is time consuming on top of not being an easy task.

Can you remind me when did the topic of adding Arabic was brought up and how did you the admins respond to it? right to left is no excuse to such delay. We don't want a full language support since we don't really care about the translation of turrets or hulls and the description of each one and many other random stuff that does not really matter. What does matter is being able to chat in Arabic. Surprisingly the global chat has no problem regarding RTL for years now, so you can chat in Arabic without any issue so i am wondering what makes the global chat different and why you simply can't apply it to the in-game chat. (An example)

 

The game does not support Chinese but still you can chat in-game using it just like any other language but not the Arabic language.

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On 8/18/2025 at 2:55 AM, Wry said:

Then both the topic and the poll are misleading since most players who did vote thought it will affect the decision of deciding what language to add, otherwise why would you start such topic and poll? just for you to say it was only to see what the forum users think? it does not matter what we think if it won't affect the decision in adding any language in the first place. Implying that this topic and the poll was just made for the sake of curiosity of the admins which is not professional since it does not serve a meaningful purpose and just mislead the community into thinking that it will decide what language will be added to the game next.

I am sorry if you were under the impression that the poll is there to determent what language will be added next. The opinions of players always matter but having the most results in the poll doesn't guarantee that the winning language will be the first to be added. The topic was created with the purpose of getting the opinions of the community regarding what languages they'd be interested in seeing added to the game next, and these opinions have been passed to the people in charge. From that onward we have no control of what languages are added.

On 8/18/2025 at 2:55 AM, Wry said:

Can you remind me when did the topic of adding Arabic was brought up and how did you the admins respond to it? right to left is no excuse to such delay. We don't want a full language support since we don't really care about the translation of turrets or hulls and the description of each one and many other random stuff that does not really matter. What does matter is being able to chat in Arabic. Surprisingly the global chat has no problem regarding RTL for years now, so you can chat in Arabic without any issue so i am wondering what makes the global chat different and why you simply can't apply it to the in-game chat. (An example)

I cannot remind you of something you weren’t aware of in the first place, nor am I allowed to share the details of internal conversations. As I mentioned earlier, there’s no guarantee that Arabic will be added at all, so referring to it as a “delay” isn’t really accurate. I am not a developer, but I'd assume there is a big difference between being able to chat in the global chat in Arabic than adding a RTL option for the whole game. As I can see what you're interested the most in is being able to chat in Arabic inside battles, I will forward your suggestion onward.

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On 8/17/2025 at 11:59 PM, Spy said:

The poll was made simply to see what the Forum users think and it has no effect about the decisions the higher ups make. The decisions are made according to the statistics & data that the game developers collect.

On 8/18/2025 at 3:21 AM, Spy said:

The topic was created with the purpose of getting the opinions of the community regarding what languages they'd be interested in seeing added to the game next, and these opinions have been passed to the people in charge.

These two posts contradict each other. Firstly, you did admit that the poll was simply made to see what the forum users think and has no effect whatsoever on the decisions the higher ups make since they do already use a more accurate way to collect data which means there is no need to make such topic and poll in the first place. But then you said that the topic purpose was to collect opinions to then pass it down to the higher ups. So if the topic and the poll has no effect on the decisions as you said on your first post, why would you pass it down to the higher ups? Or you just said it to make it look like the topic served a meaningful purpose? and if so why didn't you say that in your first post? I wonder.

On 8/18/2025 at 3:21 AM, Spy said:

cannot remind you of something you weren’t aware of in the first place, nor am I allowed to share the details of internal conversations. As I mentioned earlier, there’s no guarantee that Arabic will be added at all, so referring to it as a “delay” isn’t really accurate. I am not a developer, but I'd assume there is a big difference between being able to chat in the global chat in Arabic than adding a RTL option for the whole game.

Since you start to assume stuff, i will assume as well that the higher ups planned to add the language of each community who plays Tanki. Which is not really an assumption since we know the higher ups does that already by adding languages to the game actively, and we already know that the Arabic community is active and has been active since day one and this poll is a proof of that. So referring to the in-game chat issue as a delay while other languages have no such issue is reasonable to me.

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On 8/18/2025 at 1:07 PM, Wry said:

These two posts contradict each other. Firstly, you did admit that the poll was simply made to see what the forum users think and has no effect whatsoever on the decisions the higher ups make since they do already use a more accurate way to collect data which means there is no need to make such topic and poll in the first place. But then you said that the topic purpose was to collect opinions to then pass it down to the higher ups. So if the topic and the poll has no effect on the decisions as you said on your first post, why would you pass it down to the higher ups? Or you just said it to make it look like the topic served a meaningful purpose? and if so why didn't you say that in your first post? I wonder.

I mainly wanted to make myself more clear and I probably should have worded it better in my first post - The poll doesn't determent which language will be added first, but the opinions of the players who voted and commented were passed on. However, the main factors that are being taken into consideration are the statistics and data the developers collect. I hope that makes things clearer for you. 

On 8/18/2025 at 1:07 PM, Wry said:

Since you start to assume stuff, i will assume as well that the higher ups planned to add the language of each community who plays Tanki. Which is not really an assumption since we know the higher ups does that already by adding languages to the game actively, and we already know that the Arabic community is active and has been active since day one and this poll is a proof of that. So referring to the in-game chat issue as a delay while other languages have no such issue is reasonable to me.

Well, I’ve looked a bit deeper into the case, and it’s no longer just my assumption but a fact - adding full RTL support is indeed much harder than simply enabling Arabic in the lobby chat. Unlike mine, your assumptions don’t hold water. While there are plans to introduce new languages to the game, there’s no guarantee which ones will actually be added. Yes, the Arabic community is probably one of the largest currently playing, but other factors are also taken into account. The poll was created by me, and I included Arabic because I know the community is big - but that’s not proof of anything. The battle chat issue is an entirely separate matter; it has nothing to do with translating the whole game into Arabic, and it affects other languages as well, not just Arabic. 

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On 8/18/2025 at 1:27 PM, Spy said:

 

I said what i wanted to say so thanks for responding.

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On 8/18/2025 at 1:52 PM, Wry said:

I said what i wanted to say so thanks for responding.

You are welcome!