Windows Phone 8 Store in different regions

[yousi]

Dear all,

I am living the the UAE, I recently bought Lumia 1520 and I must say that it is an awesome phone and I just fell in love with Windows Phone 8 instantly .

Now, I noticed something .. when I tried to search for a game called Plants and Zombies, I wasn't able to find it in the store. A friend of mine told me to try and "change" the region for my Windows Phone 8 and try to look again. So, I did that and changed my region to the USA and I found the game ! of course, I couldn't buy the game since my wallet was not made for that region and when I tried to use my credit card to create a new payment method, I wasn't able to since the card country address can't be changed ! my card's address is in the UAE not the USA. I can still download FREE apps and games. But what if I want to buy them?

it is really frustrated that as a Windows Phone user I am not getting what other users in the world are getting.

Is there a work around solution for this? or am I stuck with Microsoft regions policies ?

Thank you

 

[anony_mouse]

Yeah, you might do better with Android - there seem to be fewer regional restrictions.

 

[Ahmad Barakji]

I live in the UAE too.
I didn't buy any apps yet (didn't need to so far) but for my iPad, I just get gift cards and purchase apps that aren't available in the MENA region.
I don't know where you can buy gift cards for the Store, but perhaps you can get one of those prepaid, one-time-use cards. They sell them in Carrefour I think.