Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-30602727-20160202181457/@comment-30602727-20160222194354

I'm not saying that people aren't allowed to have an opinion and that opinions can be avoided on every topic. I know that they're well aware that their say is nothing. If you're not going to support the VOCALOID in any way, then fine, leave it to the people who care.

>"you know the target audience arguement never comes up when people criticise Japanese Vocaloids."

One word. Fukase. When people were arguing over his whole licensing, some people did point out that the intended audience were Japanese and they'd be willing to ask permission to use him for commercial works. Then go on about how it wouldn't be overly difficult to ask YAMAHA for permission, blah blah blah, I'm not going into this whole Fukase thread uproar again. Basically, I wouldn't say it "never" comes up, more so that it's not often.

Even if people are that angry or hateful, there is no need for prickish responses. Oh, like the time Lorra was officially announced that she's suspended, there were "Good riddance", "Rest in Piss", "Nobody liked her anyways" etc right on the day of. So you can't nicely let people who actually liked her to "mourn" her without seeing all these comments. If you don't like her, fine, at least give one day of peace for her and her fans.

This is basically what my entire issue with the whole ordeal is. You can have an opinion, yes. But you don't have to word it in ways that basically put others off. Now we have people giving opinions about other people's opinions. The other issue is formulating an opinion based on something that wasn't really shown in a small demo. Voice type? Yeah, that's there. Otherwise, everything else is like???

Let's use that "I don't think she's useful" one. How do you know she's basically useless aside from the fact that she has around the same voice type as 3/4 of the other available girls? Like Angel said, they may have similar voice types, but one might perform something better than the other. We don't know how Stardust pronounces her lyrics. We don't know her tempo or range and whether is better or limited compared to the others. We don't know what genres she excels in best. In other words, aside from voice type, you can't really say that much about her.

Last note: NetEase was the one who handled and ditched Lorra. They're not in charge of Stardust.