No Games in App Store!!

Ok,
what's up here...
i'm in Ireland, and the Irish store seems to have all other categories, but not games.
There is one item in the games section that isn't even a game, it's got an "Entertainment" classification. What's going on?
I want to buy some games, but can't... Come on Apple, I want to give you my money, but you just won't let me!!

Dell XPS, Windows XP Pro, 2.4g Dual Core, 2gb Ram, 2.5tb HDD

Posted on Jul 11, 2008 6:20 AM

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Jul 11, 2008 10:47 AM in response to tonyreilly

Yay Ireland!!! Anyways, all around the world people can't update their old iPhone / iPod touch (<-- Me), or register their new iPhones. CLearly Apple wasn't prepared for something, and its causing everything to have some problem. If I were you, i would:

1. Refresh iTunes store, maybe they fixed the bug
2. Exit iTunes and open it again and check ( this worked for me once)
3. Reset you computer
Or 4. Re-install itunes

Hopefully, one of these will help... If not, just wait it out... That's what I have to do 😟

Jul 11, 2008 10:48 AM in response to tonyreilly

Yay Ireland!!! Anyways, all around the world people can't update their old iPhone / iPod touch (<-- Me), or register their new iPhones. CLearly Apple wasn't prepared for something, and its causing everything to have some problem. If I were you, i would:

1. Refresh iTunes store, maybe they fixed the bug
2. Exit iTunes and open it again and check ( this worked for me once)
3. Reset you computer
Or 4. Re-install itunes

Hopefully, one of these will help... If not, just wait it out... That's what I have to do 😟

Jul 12, 2008 8:16 AM in response to JBrett

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately it's not 3 days later, 3 different computers, complete re installs of iTunes and still no games in the Irish store!!
The games are available in the UK store (so it's not a rating problem, cause UK and Ireland generally have the same ratings as well as release dates!)

Anyone, PLEASE, anyone help me with this...

Really want to get some games!

Thanks in advance,
Tony.

Jul 13, 2008 1:24 PM in response to tonyreilly

In another thread someone posted that they had contacted Apple about this and Apple said the game developers had chosen the countries they wanted their games to appear in and so they would have to choose Ireland. I contacted a developer and he told me he had made his game "available for the whole world".

This is an Apple problem but they are blaming the games developers.

Jul 13, 2008 2:35 PM in response to Paul Judd

True, but why Ireland. I haven't gone through every store, but all the ones I did had games available. Chile, Croatia, Guatamala, France, Finland.... All have games available. The fact that it is every game and seems to be only Ireland (and apparently china) makes me doubt it is the developers failing to tick a box. The likely hood of them all not ticking the same box at the same time seems very unlikely. Anyway, I have contacted Apple and several of the games developers to see if I can get an answer out of anyone and sort this out.

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