Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26213067-20150704223025/@comment-53539-20150706200802

Dizzyzebra wrote: If people see a company's actions as wrong, there is nothing wrong with them voicing their criticism or boycotting the corporation. The success of a Vocaloid isn't as important as someone's moral values, remember that.

I currently need to catch up on all the new info before I make a judgement, but I understand why people would be upset and why they would take action because of it. Of course there's going to be some people who take it to an extreme, but that isn't the case for everyone. orz I doubt the boycott would have much impact. Did you not note the recent addition to Yohioloid's page Diz (I know you are catching up an all)? He failed. The Vocaloids for V3 were aimed at the fans, but they didn't pay into what they had. Their boycott is another wasted effort, because while morally wrong, PowerFX doesn't loose much more then a handful of sales.

If the product is no better off without or without the boycott, then the protesters still haven't got what they want out of this. I'd care more for this situaion if Bil had said how successful Yohiloid had been thanks to the fans... But he didn't, he said it was a not sucessful enough. While I believe every penny counts, I don't believe half those protest ever truly planned to buy Ruby in the first place.

As morally wrong as this is Diz, I've seen worst from Nintendo andthe phrase "beware when fighting monsters least you become one" is also a warning that can be applied here. How much better are some of the fans acting right now then PowerFX? Not much... thats what stops me from taking a side, though I've long given Bil and Anders sympathy for facing the mob.

A peaceful protest is better then a rage protest and right now its a rage protest. In this situation, there is a risk that the fans ignore details because their looking for someone to hang. Of course, bare in mind here a corpse cannot talk. And without PowerFX we have 1 less English vocaloid company, cutting the amount of English possible Vocaloids produced. Given how long it takes to make 1 English vocal and that English Vocaloid is still struggling to make a foothold, how far should one punish PowerFX? Their hearts are in the right place, and PowerFX at the end of the day did wrong... But everything has a consequences.