Its parent company, Take-Two, had announced its intentions to exit Russia on March 7, noting it had watched the events unfolding in Ukraine with “concern and sadness.” It said it would stop new sales, installations, and marketing in both Russia and Belarus. Rockstar Games pulled over a half dozen titles from its Grand Theft Auto series, among others.
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These are sizable exits - Clash of Clans alone has seen 36 million installs across both iOS and Android to date in Russia, for example. The company’s games that were pulled from the App Store in Russia included Brawl Stars, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale and Hay Day. New downloads are halted and access for existing players will be suspended with the next client updates.įor instance, Supercell on March 9 tweeted that, in response to the ongoing war, “new downloads are halted and access for existing players will be suspended “ with the next update. In response to the ongoing war in Ukraine, Supercell has removed its games from app stores in Russia and Belarus. The Russian App Store has lost a number of top games from publishers including Zynga, Supercell, Take-Two (Rockstar Games), and others - many of which have publicly announced their exits. Games are the largest category seeing removals in Russia and represent some huge departures. Of these, MyFitnessPal had been fairly popular in Russia, having seen some 4.2 million installs to date, including those across both iOS and Android. Also gone are health apps from MyFitnessPal, Kaiser Permanente, and numerous smaller fitness, meditation and yoga apps. In sports, apps from the NFL, NBA, WWE and Eurosport have disappeared from the Russian App Store following the invasion. Retailers like H&M and American Eagle Outfitters also pulled apps, along with Ebates’ shopping platform ShopStyle. For instance, Coca-Cola pulled its iOS loyalty and rewards-focused app out of the Russian App Store, as the company recently vowed to suspend its business in Russia. In some cases, the Russian App Store removals are related to those big brand exits. That country has now seen a loss of 5,900 apps since the invasion’s start - a figure that increased by 73% when compared with the 3,418 apps removed from February 1-14.īy comparison, other app markets had seen smaller increases in app removals, perhaps also related to Apple’s App Store maintenance efforts. Many publishers also removed their apps and games from the App Store in Belarus, Russia’s neighbor and ally. Russia is not the only country being impacted in this way. These pre-invasion app removals were likely related to Apple’s ongoing cleanup efforts, Sensor Tower noted. During that earlier period, Russia’s App Store had seen only 3,404 app removals - a figure that was in line with the number of apps pulled from Apple’s App Stores in other markets, including the U.S., where 3,422 apps were removed.
While Apple routinely removes outdated and abandoned apps from its App Store, the Russian App Store app removals post-invasion (February 24 through March 14) represent a 105% increase in the number of apps removed from the store when compared with the first two weeks of February 2022 (February 1 to 14). Amid the widespread exits, several Big Tech companies’ apps continue to rank highly on the Russian App Store, though the Top Charts currently are filled with VPN apps. To date, those apps had been downloaded around 218 million times in Russia, representing a little over 3% of their total 6.6 billion global lifetime installs. The Russian App Store has lost 6,982 mobile apps since the start of the Ukraine invasion, as numerous companies have now pulled their apps and games from Apple’s iPhone and iPad App Stores in the country, according to data shared with TechCrunch by app intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
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