Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26869370-20170414154754/@comment-24659969-20170414181423

GeoDash! wrote: OK, here's the big question:

WHY DID PONOS DELETE THE ORIGIONAL BATTLE CATS FROM THE APP STORE?!?! THEY COULDVE JUST MADE AN UPDATE! In actual, the BCJP is the updated original battlecats. The original battlecats is never deleted. You can even try install the original ver 1.x.x and see that playstore and appstore both recognized it as outdated BCJP.

PONOS decided to split it into multi regional app mainly due to:

1. Update speed: It is easier, faster to release the updates as the developer native language first then let overseas translation team do the job later while the main dev team can also roll out quick fix for bugs or errors if any found.

2. Collabs concern: Example, if battlecats still maintain both original English and Japanese language at same time. Some collabs with another party which strictly limited to JPN region (like Pazudora collab or Kaku-sei Million Arthur) then would not become possible.

The same concept is same like many other games;


 * Brave Frontier was containing multi language during beta but then split into multiple regional app like now.


 * Princess Punt from Gungho contains 5 language at first, but the sequel Princess Punt: Sweets which promotes expansional online contents has to be split into two (International and JPN-KR)