I see...right now they are very busy trying to bring Shade back.  They did the same thing with it but now I guess they figure their market is saturated and the only new growth potential lies in the English market.

The problem is that when you walk away from a product not too many people are going to take the chance that you won't decide to do it again.  You would think e-Frontier would first attempt to grab the previous Shade owners, but no, they said they can buy a magazine like everyone else and get the 8.5 release or they can upgrade directly with the same price given to those who weren't previous Shade owners and bought the magazine.  Either way their is a new 9 version out and a 10 on the way.  Not sure if this will be the last release again but I am betting on it.  Perhaps after this failed attempt they will concentrate on Amapi Pro?