Board Thread:English VOCALOID discussion/@comment-2A02:C7D:5A41:2800:299E:72F3:973C:716-20180122123040/@comment-53539-20180123182708

I won't say Syo had lied, only that they were mistaken on the level of control they had on Ruby or simply wanted more control then they had. The result either way was they thought they had full control over who she was sound for and what she looked like, but in reality whoever ended up with her would have had full control. If not for Misha and the protestors, Ruby would have gone out with the original art. Since he was already paid to make a voicebank or was at least contracted, had he refused to sell it... He would have broken his end of the deal and that was not so good. I know he stated he wanted to make a Korean voicebank as he was Korean descendant or something, but honestly...? As things go, I'm not sure if I had been a studio I'd have dealt with him after the mess with Ruby. And half of that isn't even his fault.

I know people complained he got paid peanuts, but honestly had Ruby done extremely well, Syo would have been in a position to sell the other vocals and would have gotten a lot of his money back that way. So a lot of people in the incident had a piece of the blame cake, from Syo, to PowerFX, to Anders, to the Fans, to Misha. Nobody really came out of the incident not having had a piece of the cake and even those who deny they ate it still did.

I'm just glad the wikia was kept tame and there was a call made not to rage like VO forums did... We ate a piece of the pie, but it was the smallest piece of all as a result. ^_^

PowerFX would have allowed Misha to have whatever design they wanted as they did with Yohioloid, and was why Syo agreed to PFX, but this was not ever conveyed correctly to them. This lead to the miscommunications. Fans still harp on at times about it, but PFX aren't the villains that some fans want them to be, their just a small company who can be a bit bumble at times (V4 reveal months before the announcement) and due to the language barrier... Have problems understanding some stuff, it makes the very poor communicators. On the other hand, Zero-G are professionals and expect some things that can make them a little les fan-friendly, but PFX have always been approachable, at least they were when Bil was with them.

Had he gone with Zero-G, they would have chosen an artist unrelated to the development team (aka Syo and Anders). CFM would also have hired a artist to randomly slap any old design on her too. She would have been treated like Meiko and Kaito and not been theirs, just sold by them.

Anders is the go-between of Zero-G, Yamaha (via CFM I believe), PowerFX and CFM and organises the development of vocals for PowerFX and Zero-G. Yamaha doesn't really care much for overseas studios at times, as they aren't their main attention (Japanese studios are) so aren't that great. But Yamaha are not distributors, all the role is from them to the English companies is when a voicebank is ready they send them to Yamaha who tests them for quality. CFM are licensed distributors, which is part why none of the two studios vocaloids ever appear on the vocaloid shop from what I've been told. How much truth there is to that I don't know.

That and like with going with Steam games a % of the profit is likely taken out of the profit so this is likely also why not every company most likely likes to go with Yamaha. If that's true, it would also explain a few things.