Count me in :( 2 cards (visa and MasterCard) - 0 effect. I feel like I waisted several months of my life for nothing.

So, I tried 3 different devices with several different browsers, same Apple ID though. I even mailed Craid Federighi... No charge request, no dev program, no several months of my life. Stopped all investment in that.

There will be no help here unfortunately. Customer support doesn’t pay any attention to this topic. Just open a ticket, maybe a lot of tickets will push this somewhere...

This is literally the worst experience I have ever had with Apple. Really, support is just ignoring me.

Sent a bug report, but Apple will ignore it too, probably...

Well, at least they provided you with mail that something had gone wrong.

I found a solution, i sent a email to devprograms@apple.com to tell them my struggles.  Before that, I signed up in https://appleid.apple.com/ and I saved my credit card(the sixteen number and the CVV). I told them to purchase the Apple Developer Program membership using my credit card saved and it's work.  Have tried that. As I suspected, Apple ignored my email... Frustration skyrocketed like a Space X ship...

I believe the function signature of localized will need to match the function signature of NSLocalizedString for genstrings to pick up the strings from code.  I have re-made my function: localized(_ key: String, tableName: String? = nil, bundle: Bundle = Bundle.main, value: String = "", comment: String = "") - String Still getting the same errors :( Our recommendation is that you should always include in a comment to localizers for context; hence why this property is required for NSLocalizedString in Swift. Thanks for the advice, but it's a deliberate decision. I am a localizer for the app. Instead of the func, you could define String extension, with a property or a func I thought about it, but writing "bla-bla-bla".localized looks ugly for my taste.