Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25070303-20150525002714/@comment-25521131-20150525175638

Well you have to consider that the dissappearance of Ring and Lui is probably quite the embarrassement for Yamaha, since they advertised them so heavily, even making them part of the face of the Vocaloid Store, and actually have a fully working version of Ring's voicebank ( Whether or not it was actually completed is debatable. but clearly it worked well enough as a beta ) at this point, if it is in fact possible, and considering the fan's response to the whole controversy for Vocanext, and the outcry for the voicebank, even going as far as to essentially create a replacment for her ( Namely UTAU "Jewel", a project started by Planty, but was cancelled for obvious reasons, and has been re-named to UTAU "Mocha" ) it would be silly on Yamaha's part to not at least try to make profit on Ring. The only issue at this point concerns ownership, which seeing as Vocanext fell off the face of the Earth isn't exactly easy.

I guess what I'm trying to say at this point is it's not absolutely impossible that Yamaha may bring Ring back, but it's probably not exactly their biggest priority at the moment - maybe they're just waiting for the copyright to wear off so they can distribute her.