Talk:Kagamine Rin & Len V4X/@comment-37896274-20190529234046/@comment-53539-20190530075719

SonicWire also doesn't show most of the Vocaloids they sell on the English version, you have to switch to the Japanese site... Believe it or not, CFM does sell other studios Vocaloids.

From what I gather its international licensing issues, but I don't know the full details and I don't know where to start to pull that information as to why there is a different between sales within Japan and outside of Japan. Its been discussed before among studios, there is a increased licensing fee to sell overseas, but I don't know how it effects all things. Basically, its to do with the fact purely that Vocaloid becomes an export once you sell it over seas and it impacts all the non-Japan Vocaloids especially. But thats all we've had explained thus far.

Some Vocaloids also disappeared from the VOCALOID STORE when it was closed and the VOCALOID SHOP came along. This was because the Shop didn't allow for physical copies, Ah Software adopted the sales of those physical copies, with Macne Nana also becoming a Sh Software Vocaloid in the process.

Vocaloid Licensing... It also runs out. The V3 "SE" editions were made because of licensing needing to be renewed for certain Vocaloids in the Vocaloid Store. It was not really that needed as the Vocaloid Store as I mentioned closed down in favour of the Vocaloid Shop...

There is a lot of unknown factors and one thing to note is not all studios may have interest in selling overseas to begin with. Goes back to the notion that each languages voicebanks are only intended for that market, so Japanese for Japan, Chinese for China, English for Europe and America, Spanish for Europe and Korean for South Korea.

Some studios just don't expect foreigners to buy their Vocaloids and one or two devs... Have near all but called people 'stupid' for buying Japanese Vocaloids when they can't actually use them (saying that, Wat once said that 'stupid westerners' would break their computer trying to use the English version of Vocaloid, though we don't know if he was calling westerners stupid, just referring to our least bright members of the community...Though I do like to think of it as he was also calling himself stupid for not being able to use something many westeners can pick up easily when they actually put effort into it).

I do know the Rana devs wanted to be in a position to sell overseas some day, Rana V4 is not on the English Shop website. I think they were trying to say they want to make a English voicebank at some point with this. Though they also wished to be able to make voices for XSY... So I guess not everything works out...