Board Thread:English VOCALOID discussion/@comment-2A02:C7D:5A41:2800:299E:72F3:973C:716-20180122123040/@comment-2A02:C7D:5A41:2800:6C0E:A896:5124:5866-20180125204347

(Sorry for the late reply, I had been busy buying a new phone and other things as my old one busted).

I can understand why people did get upset over Ruby's design - whilst I won't go over much - VOCALOID seems to rely much on the 'avatar' aspect since Miku's popularity but also because it was important to Misha (not only from the 'clashing palettes') primarily because Ruby was suppose to represent Misha's background and culture. It's a shame that people sought PowerFX to be the villain as I think they're a very friendly company (whilst this may be true or not now, I don't know, and I really do feel bad for Anders, Bil, other people working in PowerFX at the time as they didn't deserve that backlash from anyone).

Whilst I personally would put my own products on Yamaha's VOCALOID shop, I can understand as to why a lot of oversea companies avoid this altogether (as you mentioned, the % of profit which is very important to Zero-G, PowerFX) as it is a business and anyone would seek as much profit potential as they can.

I'm not really all that surprised about Yamaha not paying attention toward oversea products as mainland is more time convient but you also understand what you are looking for more easily (although since the Cyber Diva/Songman script, I would presume at least the English products will have some sort of vague quality control of the vocal now).