Certification step taking over 24 hours

Anyone else experiencing delays in the Windows Store publishing process? I know Microsoft has said they are going to be stricter about what gets published, so maybe as part of that it takes longer now?

I’ve never had an app take longer than 1 to 3 hours to be approved, but I published a new app yesterday and it is still in the “Certification will be done within a few hours” step (has been that way for almost 24 hours now).

I did include a Spanish store listing this time… maybe that usually takes longer, if they have less people to review those? This app is also my first one that is pretty huge (200MB), but I wouldn’t imagine file size would really matter.

I guess it was because it ended up failing, which I’ve never experienced before… I assume they must do some extra review, maybe 2nd opinion, in some failure cases.

In my case, it’s a shooter game, with blood/gore… I guess I just have to deselect China and submit again. Sorry China :frowning: