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In this episode, I share my thoughts on HeR Interactive's shift to MyCommerce, shed light on some issues with Digital River, and talk about the changes that HeR Interactive has made to prepare for this situation.
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[@NancyDrewWalkthroughs]

UPDATE: Literally MINUTES after I uploaded this video, HeR Interactive switched the date they're completing the transition from November 18th to November 25th. This doesn't change any information in the video aside from the fact that the transition date has been pushed back by a week.

[@Ike-z6u]

Thanks for highlighting the fact that all strategy guides are free now. Any idea how we can get the Ransom of the Seven Ships strategy guide now that it is discontinued? Same goes for the OG Secrets Can Kill and Stay Tuned for Danger. I wish Her Interactive would have kept those guides out for download. On another note, I'm annoyed that the guides for games 7-15 are downloading as ugly black and white pdfs with no cover art. The other guides are so bright and colorful, but 7-15 are very bland. At least I didn't pay for them. I wonder if they were like that originally or if something messed up on their end to make them black and white.

[@NancyDrewWalkthroughs]

@@Ike-z6u Hi there! The Ransom of the Seven Ships strategy guide was officially discontinued back in 2020, but can still be purchased via this link to HeR's online store: store.digitalriver.com/store/herinter/en_US/pd/productID.235318900 Regarding the other strategy guides, I do have information for you. HeR Interactive never actually wrote an official strategy guide for the original Secrets Can Kill or Stay Tuned for Danger. Back in the early 2000s, a company called DreamCatcher Interactive wrote and published guides for those games, however HeR Interactive never had the rights to publish them or sell them. So there are no strategy guides for the first 2 games unless you can track down a physical copy of the DreamCatcher guides (which are VERY rare). As for the digital guides for games 6-15, they are in black and white because that's how HeR Interactive has always sold them. Every physical strategy guide (including the DreamCatcher guides) were all printed in black and white. They started selling digital guides in color with White Wolf. I'm not sure why they didn't all include covers, but it's most likely because HeR made them as a separate file that was sent to the printers for printing in color. In short, there is no error with how they're downloading, it's simply because HeR has never made any color version of guides 6-15 available for purchase. I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any further questions!

[@jasonfoth14]

Sending support to Her Interactive! Down with Digital River! I knows times be tight, and things have changed, but that sounds like straight up theft... I'll stick to Steam until things seem normal again. Thanks for sharing this info. I know this community cares so much about Her's wellbeing out of respect to the games all these years. KEY had just enough improvement to believe there's glimpse of what made these games great, and I believe game #35 could take good steps

[@PuffyKat]

Thanks for the update! 🔎

[@Christydollplays]

This is something! Couldn't Her Interactive sue Digital River for not paying like they're supposed to?

[@HelenMaxwellfan]

I may have posted this before on a previous video by you: eleven years ago Digital River has something similar happen with orders for Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. They cancelled orders for the game. You can find a lot of info about the order cancellations and order problems on Reddit. It may have been a long time ago, but I have tried to avoid doing business with Digital River since then. I guess it sort of echoes what has happened with Mystery of the Seven Keys. I can't post links so I will put descriptions for two videos about it. StephsTooDef made a video about her copy of the Ni No Kuni being cancelled tilted Monthly Pick-Ups - January 2013 (Ni No Kuni RAGE!!!) Saguaro Boys posted a video called A Timeline of the Ni no Kuni Wizard's Edition Controversy. It discusses the issue of the cancellations in a little more detail. He did wind up receiving his copy of the game, and did an unboxing video. KZbin has so many videos, I was having trouble finding an these older videos.

[@Little1Cave]

I’m actually curious if a major reason the Steam release was so much later than the HER store release was because of some deal made with Digital River requiring them to not sell it on Steam for an amount of time to avoid competition. That being said, man I missed hearing from you Huw. It’s been so long. 😭

[@TheSneak06]

🙄 This still doesn't solve their DR problem. I am curious to see if the shipping prices on physical copies change. Given how much DR was charging for shipping, they should have been paying the companies they owed. Ugh. But either way, this is not a solution for HeR...

[@rodneyharrington5049]

This video is a huge improvement over some previous ones. Very terse, and to the point. It says what it wants to say without a lot of wasted words.

[@SamuelsAudiobooks-q2g]

Did you make your opening animation with Canva?

[@NancyDrewWalkthroughs]

No, I created it in Adobe After Effects!