Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-30602727-20150918192357/@comment-32500188-20150922023908

For me, since things have been rectified on both sides of the business matter, I'm still going to invest in her despite the drama that stemmed the problem in the first place. Had it not been settled and things continued on for her release without a compromise, I'd have backed off as well... but I'm not going to let the efforts and attempts that were made to fix the problem for the sake of making her happen at all go to waste. I'm pretty sure previous failed projects may have ran into similar problems for them not to become a reality, so the fact that Ruby's controversies over miscomunication got solved at all is satisfactory enough for me at least.

As for all that other stuff... meh... yes, it's somewhat off-putting, but in all truth, they were like that before, and I certainly wasn't expecting this to change them in any way, so that's somewhat of a relief and a disappointment all at once. (The former, because they've kept themselves grounded in what they believed in without selling out the moment people started claiming their project was worth more than they were; the latter, because things could have gone much more smoothly had they remained on-top of things and kept their foot in the door, as well as acted a bit more professional when addressing the issues without letting emotions get the better of themselves and those who have been following Ruby's progress.)

It's also funny now, looking back on things... seeing as there have been hopes in the past for people not fault other VOCALOIDs for drama or mistakes their creators and/or VPs get caught up in anyways, so I'm definitely not going to throw away that perspective when it comes to Ruby. It would feel too much of a flip-flop for me, to be honest.

Plus, we have yet to experience the full potential of Ruby's vocals since no one outside of Syo & Misha have used her directly, so I'm still pumped. She may have some of the same tendencies of CYBER DIVA, but after working with CD for a while, I can hear enough of a difference between the two and Ruby has a more... how can I say... "natural" flow from samples not relying on P&P VSQx files. I'm hoping to be able to get her physical copy once it's out, though I'm tempted to go ahead with the DL version because I REALLY want to put out another original using her vocals this time. :-P