Talk:Status/@comment-5051846-20150704193314/@comment-32500188-20150705184717

Personally, a lot of my dissatisfaction from yesterday and now stems on the fact that one party did not keep their initial agreement intact, which in turn sparked off even more drama than if they had kept in contact and worked something out on the design aspects together before presenting it at such a big event as AX. While I still do like the PFX design, I knew it was going to be a lot of nay-saying and I'd be one of the few on the minority of that end, because it not anything that "screams" VOCALOID off the bat, even if it was a different approach. (I think it's simple, yet eye-catching in a way... but not in the way PFX wanted it to be. Plus I know plenty of folks who sound younger than they look, so that's another reason why the voice/design-match didn't phase me too much...)

After seeing the info from Syo and all others related to Ruby's creation outside of PFX, though, it's really discouraging that things went in a completely different direction than what they had in mind for the project overall. Whether it's "common business practice", unofficial image or not, I just can't agree with something that feels like a company leaching off of a smaller (and formerly non-affiliated) project, then finally getting the "meat" and changing the label into what they want it to be instead... something that almost doesn't give enough of a hint that there's "meat" in the final product.

I'm not sure whether PFX is willing to openly talk about their side of the developments (they probably can't at the moment, either), but one thing for sure, it's obvious whatever was and wasn't done properly behind the scenes has caused even more of a dramatic headache for the originating producers and supporters alike than what it should have been.

And that's the most frustrating thing about this whole situation... it could have very well been avoided altogether.