Talk:Zhanyin Lorra/@comment-124.185.124.30-20140902033757/@comment-30602727-20140902125139

The thing is, you can't treat VOCALOID like anime and manga. Yes, a fanbase can encourage them to make more episodes or merch or sometimes more volumes or a spinoff, but most of that is also based on how many people are buying, reading and watching their stuff

EVERYTHING on VOCALOID is based on profit. Everyone wants a LEON, LOLA and MIRIAM V3 right? Well, Zero-G can't and won't do that at the moment because they don't have enough money to. It's a risk. They worry that "if these VOCALOIDs didn't sell that much in the beginning, who's to say they won't sell well again?" and that goes for all other companies that lack updates. We have strong English V1 supporters, but it won't really help Zero-G at all. That's why we keep saying that petitions don't work. It's great to know that there are fans that care, but what good would that do? It's not like a kickstarter, where they're putting in money to assist with paying for production. :/

On the other hand with companies that are doing relatively well, such as Crypton, they have enough money to do whatever project and sometimes, often, gets away with making a crappy voicebank because people will buy it anyways due to the character or company being so famous and well-known. Let's face it, Miku English wasn't that fantastic, but it still sold relatively fine because IT'S MIKU. Everyone WANTS Miku and don't really care how bad she would sound. Even the Kagamines sold very well because they're cute and Crypton, even though their voicebanks were the worst of them all. :/

Shanghai He Nian is still a relatively new company, especially since they're getting no help from BPlats to produce Ling and Lorra this time. In China, there are way more male fans than female and they're the ones doing the buying. All four girls were targeted to boys and pretty much, SHN won't experiment with a male VOCALOID unless heavily requested by the Chinese fans who would definitely buy him and when there's more girls interested.