User blog comment:OtterJiang/The Lost Ones (Unreleased V3 Review)/@comment-53539-20141229215935

With 60+ vocaloids, I'm not sad when we have a few that don't amount to anything. :-/

With ones which just have a design and no voice, this tends to be a one-sided following. Its a problem with showing a design before a voice is that the fans will fall in love with the design over the voice and can cause people to like or otherwise dislike a vocaloid for the wrong reasons.

Alys was the worst case of it because now we have fans who are being stubborn about Alys and Vocaloid. At the same time, Alys made some people hopeful and then it turned out they did all the vocaloid design aspects befroe they even had Yamaha on their side. Wrong production order guys. And this is why some of us are forever pissed at the group behind her. Once you get to a business stage your suppose to act a particular way to show professionalism.

With Ring and Lui... We kinda saw this coming. They disappeared and after the SE re-release of several vocals, the group behind VocaNext and VocaFes disappeared.