Why it's not available for Purchase

[Prathamesh777]

Along with Dovetail Games' Train Simulator DLC GP9, Tradewinds Classics & Tradewinds Caravans + Odyssey Pack is unavailable for purchase for my region. Why are Devs/Publishers forcing me to resort "Not So Legal" ways for acquiring these games. Please, please make Tradwinds Classics and Tradewinds Caravans + Odyssey Pack available for Steam Store India.

[kilicool64]

Sadly, Sandlot Games is dead. They decided to abandon the declining market of conventional casual games for the PC and sold themselves to Digital Chocolate in 2011 to focus on social games instead. One year later, Digital Chocolate faced financial trouble and shut them down. They have since collapsed entirely, so nobody knows who owns Sandlot Games' titles nowadays, but whoever it is seems to have no interest in doing anything with them.

You can find also these games on various casual gaming portals such as Big Fish Games and WildTangent though. I don't think they have region locks.

[Prathamesh777]

Thanks a lot for letting me know that. But I don't think I would want to scatter my licenses to more platforms. I like Steam way it is. And I prefer to keep everything here only. I have so many duplicates now scattered on Discs, PlayStation, GOG, Uplay, Origin that seems like a waste. I'm now buying everything for PC & MAC on steam, EA Games on Origin and UBIsoft on Uplay thats it. I've bought few GOGs though now I abondoned GOG.

And steam's buy once and play on either Windows, MAC, Linux feature seems very useful and value for money. It's easier to manage games here, Bundles and discounts are unmatched to any other store. As far as BigFish Games concerend its kind of expensive. I would prefer to wait if anyone releases Tradewinds on Steam rather than paying US$ 9.99 for each game at Big Fish.

Also on a side note I just can't wait to get my Hands on Steam Link hardware, I hope Valve won't discriminate like Nintendo by not officially releasing Steam Link in India.

[kilicool64]

True. I suppose $9.99 is a bit high for such old games. Shockwave.com offers them for $6.99 each, but to my knowledge, they don't use any kind of client like Steam, Big Fish Games and WildTangent do, so I don't think you can play the games you buy there on more than one PC. Still, I don't see why you'd have to resort to piracy for such a reason. The prices still aren't outrageously high by any means. Is the USD exchange rate in India really that bad?

It should be noted that the third game had an expansion pack called Tradewinds Legends Unlikely Heroes though which has since been completely discontinued. I think it was only sold on Sandlot's own site. The only remaining legal way to get that is through a hardcopy of Tradewinds Legends that claims to include extra content, which presumably refers to this.

Edit: Turns out the developers decided to be sadistic and went out of their way to remove one of Unlikely Heroes' two scenarios just for the hardcopy version. So there is no longer any legal way to get a version that has both.

[Prathamesh777]

ATM I don't have any Tradewinds games licensed or otherwise. I played 1 hr trials long time back and I loved it. Thats it.

Exchange rates don't matter but Value to Price or Utility to Cost ratio matters for me. For an exmple GTA 5 PS3 is Retailed @ 3000 INR and 2000 INR if discounted. But I choose not to pay more than 1300 INR for any PS3 games without extras like Expansions/DLC etc. 1300 is my hardlimit for Mustplay Core/Base games and 1000 is for So,so/Avg. Base games.

Another reason is I don't game much these days.0.5 hrs is my 2 weeks time on steam says for itself. So why waste resources on somthing that I may or may not use.

As for the dupes/extra copies I made this list in 2015 to remind me not to buy certain titles.

List of dupes on Windows

[01] FarCry - CD, GOG
[02] FarCry2 - CD, GOG
[03] SimCity 4 Deluxe - Origin, GOG
[04] Port Royale 2 - Steam, GOG
[05] Tropico - CD, GOG
[06] Tropico 2 - CD, GOG
[07] Tropico 3 Gold Edition - Steam, GOG
[08] Company of Heroes - CD, Steam, Humble
[09] CoH Tales of Valor - Steam, Humble
[10] CoH Opposing Fronts - Steam, Humble

[11] GTA III - CD, Steam
[12] GTA San Andreas - CD, Steam
[13] GTA IV - CD, CD, Steam
[14] Episodes from LC - CD, Steam
[15] Mafia II - CD, CD
[16] Civilization V - CD, CD
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Strictly don't dupe on Windows/MAC

[01] Don't Starv - Steam
[02] Gunpoint - Steam
[03] Hotline Miami - Steam
[04] Limbo - Steam
[05] Mark of Ninja - Steam
[06] Papers Please - Steam
[07] Terraria - Steam

Plus there are 10+ PS3 copies on in addition to PC/MAC. When I vaguely calculated how much I spent on Gaming software number reached 150 000+ INR. At times it feels I should've refrained.

EDIT : -

I just read the Community T&C and Posting Guidlines and realised I shouldn't have used a certain quote for emphasizing my point. It's not a biggie though.

I was also unaware of the trade system. So I guess I read more 'bout rules/guidelines of this system. And may be request someone to "Trade the Winds" with me. ;)

EDIT 2 :-

Can someone be kind enough to trade "Tradewinds Classic Bundle" and Tradewinds Caravans Bundle" with me please? It's unavaible over here on my local storefront.

[Lord Of Toilet]

Originally posted by Prathamesh777:

Along with Dovetail Games' Train Simulator DLC GP9, Tradewinds Classics & Tradewinds Caravans + Odyssey Pack is unavailable for purchase for my region. Why are Devs/Publishers forcing me to resort "Not So Legal" ways for acquiring these games. Please, please make Tradwinds Classics and Tradewinds Caravans + Odyssey Pack available for Steam Store India.

man can you send me the link where you acquired the steam key for it. Will be really grateful if you reply back. And thanks a lot

[Prathamesh777]

I’ve kinda changed my region to US and purchased those titles fare and square. It’s been a long while now though. Sad that Sandlot Games have no desire to publish their games globally.

[kilicool64]

It's hard to have desires when you don't exist anymore.

Their Steam releases probably were available everywhere back when they were brought here. But whenever Steam adds a new currency, they expect all publishers to manually set prices for it. Games that don't get any get locked out of that currency's countries.

[Eternal Galaxy]

Anyway I can get the full game for free?

[kilicool64]

Originally posted by Eternal Galaxy:

Anyway I can get the full game for free?

There's obviously no legal way to do that.

[Cat Witch]

Really sad to know this, the Tradewinds 2 and the Legends be my favorit when I try a demo some years ago, but when I discover have the game in Steam, already had be remove.