Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151126190829/@comment-53539-20151229180205

I'm only saying to expect not much from PowerFX physical copies. I hear the rest and am not impressed.

I've seen photos of Sweet Ann also, its the same as Sweet Ann. The one thing I won't defend about PowerFX is their physical copies, as over time I've been skeptical about their value. I know their poor, its a export, etc, etc taxes, whatever, but it comes with pretty much bone bare minimum effort.

I can't remember what Lola's was like when I bought her box (other then its size, since this was pre-DVD standard days where boxes often were like bricks), but I do remember being disappointed. I now their is a manual on the DVD itself... But the box is still pretty lighted. it what costs... 10p by Pound Sterling to produce at the most a DVD case. Less then that for the paper inside and for the cover. I could produce that same DVD myself since I once had a DVD cover printer.

In short... Its not worth the extra money.

While the design drama was annoying, I actually find the boxed drama a funny story. Its like... Watching someone walk into a wall after saying their know their house like the back of their hand. Even though I know its not funny for those involved. Unlike the last time, where the fault seemed to lie on Anders, this time the fault lies on everyone involved, everyone seemed to have a hand on the failure of the boxed version and I'm somewhat glad Dex and Daina don't have a boxed version right now... Anymore mistakes would have me questioning things.

To be honest, if I had to scale this whole drama happening right now with Ruby... Its nothing. To me, the wort thing was when Cyber Diva was released. We basically got told "we've been selling English Dev Kits with faults, we've known about it for years, but we only just did something about it. Oh but there are faults with every English voicebank because of us, but we're not going to address the elephant in the room on this and instead just let the studios take the blame". Yeah... Thanks... We were told about the Dev Kits in V2... Okay things weren't like that in the interview, as I'm being blunt about it, but the point I'm making is there are till even now worst things done with other studios.

As someone who witnessed the Sonika drama unfolding... Things were like that also at the time, give it a few yers, and a few Vocals released, and things are normally different. This is why I again stress the business with SeeU could have been repaired sooner if they focused on the next product, restoring consumer faith via showing things can get better and lessons are learnt. Its not the end for PowerFX, but they have to do better.

Trouble is... I know PowerFX blunder a lot. I'm surprised to be frank they haven't had any yet. Though what does shock me is normally they've been better at handling things then this.... And normally they give some form of apology. Ruby is kinda bothering me at this point because they aren't doing what they normally have done in the past. It bothers me just as SeeU's PR blunders from SBS did, just as Yamaha's shrugging off English buggy Dev Kit did... Compared to Zero-G, who have yet to experience anything really bad sine Sonika, things are much worst for PowerFX right now.

What makes this worst Ruby's voice type is head to head with Diva and Diva, interview aside, was released without a hitch. With so many Vocaloids from Japan having English vocals now, or considering it, loss of ground right now in any form would make things harder in the future for said studio. Especially as its becoming apparent English vocaloid is now taking off and starting to sell better then it has done in the past, and PowerFX keeps reporting disappointing released, Ruby aside. :-/