Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20180322113157/@comment-53539-20180412205557

@Cats, Ruby was Anders fault he didn't make things clear to both parties and PowerFX, mostly Bil, had a bunch of raving fans that couldn't be reasoned with nor were prepared to listen to reason. He gave them what they wanted, and meanwhile Misha was making things worst. Bil was the most approachable person in the Vocaloid franchise and was really keen about Vocaloid. I spoken to him several times over the years and the experience was positive. It was known that due to the company being in Sweden, a language barrier could occur, but for the most part most of the devs worked for both Vocaloid and Zero-G. Even down to people complaining on Ruby's quality, this would be the fault of Syo and not PowerFX. The only incident that could be considered PowerFX's fault was the Taiwan designs ending up on their website, which was the fault of whomever it was working on the PowerFX website for them. They didn't take the designs down after using them as a test.

Zero-G on the other hand, came off as snobs whenever I tried to contact them and it left an impression that was... Mixed. There was the professionalism, but there was also less room for friendly studio-to-fan interaction you could have with Bil at PowerFX. In short, people never gave PowerFX the time of day to get to know the people behind the dev team and how they could be.

@CCyclone, SBS Artech tried to promote SeeU so hard, they lied or exaggerated and duped people. They made promises they couldn't keep, tried to make SeeU appear too good. In the end they put so many eggs in one basket, that when SeeU failed they just continued on, despite the fact the Voice provider was by then also digging a bigger hole for everyone.

Only CFM has done as bad as this, but their technical is to ignore things rather then flat out lie or exaggerate, appearing humble while not being humble at all. Every studio had its faults and so far the only one who hasn't done something we can talk about is AH software least of the major companies.

The only ones I don't count, are the Yamaha group because its a bunch of individual groups working on one or two vocals.

Overall, the studios aren't as bad as I'd like everyone to think of and even the worst isn't so bad. If I think of a scale on bad companies, we'll think of EA who buys up video game companies and runs them into the ground, or Sony who undercuts artists and over charges for things that aren't as good as their prices were implied. Take it or leave it when it comes to companies, there are always worst out there. :-?