In Russia, the App Store has “broken”. Of the eight key world releases of this week, only one was included in the domestic selection.
It’s been a few weeks now. App2Top.ru observes a very strange and alarming situation around the selection of the “Best new games” of the Russian App Store.
The American featured list of Best New Games, as well as the Canadian one, changes every Thursday, as a rule, completely. There are exceptions, but they do not turn into a rule.
Previously, this was also true in relation to the selection in Russia, which was often very close to the American one.
According to our observations, the situation has changed this summer. The list of “Best new Games” began to be updated every week, not completely. Sometimes just for one or two gaming applications.
Moreover, the main world releases have stopped getting into the Russian selection. This week was no exception. Of the eight key releases, including the expected port of This War of Mine, also the expected turn-based strategy Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch, a new Zynga Mountain Goat Mountain project, a new Age of Empires – Castle Siege, a new episode In Fear I Trust, a port of the web hit Agar.io , a game based on the Dexter series, and also, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation got only one in the Russian selection – the last one.
Canadian has everything.
Considering all this, as well as the fact that all these applications are available in the Russian store, we are interested in what is the reason for Apple’s new promotion policy in Russia?