Talk:Macne Nana/@comment-78.225.83.15-20150201033834/@comment-53539-20150201110735

The fandom was never too big.

Since the Macne's were something like $15, they sound well as they were based on price. But unless you were a Mac user of G.Band or Reason or a fan of UTAU, you wouldn't have a use for her. So she was likely profitable, but had a small sales base.

UTAU later gave CVC capabilities but despite their quality, the Macne packages only had the samples to convert them to VC (gosh I hope I'm getting these terms right here). The 2S vocals I believe do have CVC, but there were then thousands of vocals of decent quality as well for UTAU. Even back in the VC days, despite the quality you had to own the original packages to legally be able to convert them to UTAU. Since they were made as a open license, it as the only reason they could be converted into other software. This is unlike Vocaloid, which is Proprietary and therefore you can only use a vocaloid vocal within vocaloid itself, making UTAU conversion illegal.

Though some in the west had the interpretation "open license" meant you didn't need to actually OWN any of the Macne's to be able to use them... ¬_¬

There are a host of other minor reasons that may or may not be relevant, so I'm not going to list them.

The other issue is, take note the surface popularity is not always a sign of a not selling product. If I look up Avanna right now, she has about 600-700 images on DA. SeeU gives the impression of being uber successful due to her high popularity (her DA numbers have "000" on the end) yet we've seen negative things spoken about her from a commercial POV. the software CeVIO, is the current classic example having known to have had 300,000 downloads, yet is barely mentioned even in the Japanese fandom.