Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.92.67.202-20140129130719/@comment-53539-20140130131120

I think the absence from the Vocaloid store may be something much simpler then we expect.

Knowing the way things go, Yamaha likely takes a small% out of the sales that occur via the store. So having the sales via your own website rather then someone else means that you get 100% of the sale back to you, rather loosing 4-30% (depending on site) to the 3rd part website. :-/

But I can't speak on behalf of the two english studios, so who knows.

It was several months before overseas vocals got added via the overseas section of the site, so Yamaha is not fully invested in this. I do, judging by the V1 era stuff, think in the past they expected the English version to succeed over the Japanese version since the amount of effort that went into it instead of the Japanese side... But once Miku got released there was no going back.

Neverless, there are more English vocals in the V3 era then the V2 era, so I don't think this is a complete ignorance of a particular market. CFM I think are filling their vocaloids in the market to get ground because stubborn fans here in the west won't buy into anything unless its CFM. There are plenty of fans who believe CFM made Vocaloid, and don't know Yamaha is the owner of Vocaloid, or don't acknowledge most fot eh Vocaloids.