Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26213067-20150323210125/@comment-53539-20150325214053

The worst part of the Galaco petitions is people thought they were the reason Galaco Neo happened, ignoring that they already confirmed that the update was going ahead before the petition was even dam well set up.

Its frustrating because I remember this happening in the One Piece fandom over 4Kids and their dub when they lost their license. People took credit for something they didn't cause. It had nothing to do with the fans, 4Kids gave up their license because though One Piece was profitable, many of the animes they were dubbing weren't and they wanted out of the Anime business. They even gave up their biggest money earner Pokemon, which was praised as a good adaption when it first came out (hehee... note the when it came out bit).

I only got annoyed because while Galaco got a few thousand signs... Nobody cared for the V1s and I think there wasn't even a petition then, or if there was it was barely signed in comparison. I remember ranting about it... But I can't remember the details. The crazy thing in all of this, in the case of Galaco, she was the Kagamine Act1/Sonika of V3... Her prize version was pretty much one of the LQ voices in V3, if not the LQ.

So yeah... Thats the other thing... If the petition is created, there is nothing to say anyone will sign it. So it can also send the message of "nobody cares". I hoenstly see the same bias at the time of Galaco's "deletion", being the problem here. People just don't care as much about Leon, Lola and Miriam as they do Japanese vocaloids overall. Even with the growing fandom, its not to say that love will get expressed.

We also have more desirable vocals then the Lola, Leon and Miriam voicetypes... And as seen with Luka V4X, out of the choice of Ruby/Ciyber Diva/Zero-G duo, people went with Luka for her English because it had XSY and Luka is a "waifu" (I need a new joke, this is old). The same thing happened in V3 with Kaito, Meiko, Miku and Megpoid, people bought them over Avanna, Oliver and Yohioloid at times.

I'm being negative... But I'm experienced at the issues with Engloids and the Vocaloid fandom. So for me any project is a big "well, good luck mate". :-/