User blog comment:OtterJiang/V4 - I'm Not Impressed/@comment-54.144.83.46-20150314023248/@comment-53539-20150314090816

I find all the negativity a irony somehow considering how excited everyone was for her release and how popular CFM is. If Luka V4x turns out to be a bad vocal, we're got another example like Act1 of screw ups by CFM. :-/

I'm not saying other companies having done this (Zero-G; Sonika, Internet co; Gumi vocal clones, etc, etc), but CFM tends to have this blind following and it can be hard to bring people down a notch and explain things. Sometimes you just feel bad explaining simple things like how Kagamine Len doesn't count towards the masculine vocal count examples or how Miku remains popular despite any flaws she has.

In the opposite direction, people may use Luka V4X as a example of to rub lemon in the wound of CFM vocaloid fans. This is also bad. I give the recent example of how someone here on the wikia said that Gumi and IA were better vocaloids... I gave the response that more or less explained the situation with how Miku more or less pulls slightly ahead of Gumi and how IA still hasn't got enough to compete despite having a good core vocal due to the 2 vocals. There are fans who enjoy knocking vocaloids that are popular to either get a reaction or because of jealously.

Saying that... I'm a Engloid fan here don't forget, for me V3 was a overall joyous engine and I'm happy for 2 more english vocals. But I'm growing concern with CFM's approach because of English Miku. Producing English for the sake of producing English, because you want to grab the market before someone else does, isn't necessary a good thing. It was a needed vocal to make sure Miku remained the centre stage, yeah, but I think they didn't get the vocal itself 100% right. To make matters worst because of how popular CFM is, people buy their vocals and judge the entire franchise on their vocals... So those not impressed with the teal-coloured pig-tailed girl might consider Oliver, Avanna, Diva, etc, just as bad.

As much as I like seeing irony in action... i don't always enjoy negative effects to a vocaloid or the software itself. I've seen how sonika is often use as the example of alle xamples to run down Engloids and I don't like this when it happens. I'm all setting records straight but... I don't know why there are fans going out of their way to rub salt in wounds and put others down. Even when me and others were explaining the situation to Otter about SeeU, it wasn't for the sake of putting SeeU down, it was just trying to explain something.

Regardless... The clock is ticking... Who knows what is going to happen. On the other hand, V5 may be so much better since there is a new head of the project. :-/