Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30602727-20141217001901/@comment-53539-20150507232159

Misteryeevee wrote: I feel like Internet Co is more like "I don't give a shit" to be honest. Like.... look at kokone, Gachpoid, Chika and recent Gackpoid V4.

kokone had a few demos yeah.... but she lacks quite a bit on her page. :P  Gachapoid had like 2-3 demos (one of them was revealed post-release) and was only updated because of Gachapin's 40th birthday really. Chika only had one demo and not much going for her. Like, look at her page, it's so.... small ;_;

And Gackpoid of course, was just a V3 + growl and some adjustments. Only 3 growl samples and one demo. Can't say much for him though, since he's literally V3+growl lol  So I expected lack of stuff anyways?

I dunno. It's not so much "I don't give a shit", but I can't figure out how ot describe it. Their recent releases have been "eh" in terms of marketing and of course, some of them sound like clones of their previous VOCALOIDs. In the case of Gackpoid, remember its costly to update him a lot... I always felt the inclusion of only two voices was because of how much Gackt was to hire versus the come back. And to be honest there isn't much really you can ask for in vocaloids. "Power" and "soft"er tones are about as far as most vocaloids need, the vocals with lots of vocals in their packages tend to start producing vocals that just sound too similar. :-/

As for Cul... Even though I think they may update her, I expect a Lily or Gachapoid standard update. In other words, either 1 extra vocal or no. Of course, they will prioritize their current V2 successes as well. Also at this point, I don't think they've ever been too heavy on marketing anyway. From the stuff I've seen on Gackpoid V2, there was much to saw. "Heres Gackpoid, heres an intereview, heres a user guide... Oh and heres Gumi!".

And most of Gumi's promotion is based on the fact that she is their companies golden girl, like Miku and the closet rival from another company Miku has. Not only that, but Internet co is also almost like the Yamaha vocaloids in set up, and the individual providers also work to their own means of promtion alongside their vocaloids... Like Merli/Lapis, Anon/Kanon, Flower, etc. The Gackpoid song contest was run by Gackt's promoters themselves. And so was his V3 special box....

So each of their vocaloids is like a cog turning independently, only meeting whenever internet co needs to update them. This is also why they had new and old vocaloids coming out of the works. They have their own in-house production as well and are experienced at samples... Since prior to Miku they were the top samples/loops company, before Vocaloid excelled CFM above them. So they were already working to this "style" in addition before they even got into Vocaloid...

Its not just Zero-G who act a certain way, professional companies often share this sort of thing. and internet co has always been a professional artists company.

CFM in contrast, controls everything and Kaito/Meiko along with the CV are all controlled by them. They own everything about Miku, the kagamines and luka and this is why they control the promotion more. From what I gather, they had limited in-house capabilities prior to Miku and most of their stuff came as a result of her popularity. :-/