A disappointment - the Charmed Shoes....

Weeks ago I discovered a new breedable in SL - Charmed Shoes - breedable shoes. I was like - WTF??? Shoes you can breed???? OMG! ;=)

So I visited the mainstore and met some of the creators and staff. Nice ppl and they told me a lot about these shoes. I already loved the idea of breedables shoes you can turn into wearables ... so not only "breedables" but also you are able to "design" and "create" your own shoes ... niiiccceeee - at least I THOUGHT it would be nice.

A few days after I bought a starter-pack and a closet (shelf that these shoes need, you can not breed them without a closet). I spent over 5k! for this. Took them home and started with them.

After I got my first "shoe babies" I wanted to turn one pair into wearables and bought a bag you need for that. But it did not work - so I IMed the creator Sebastian to ask what I did wrong. He told me that there was a server update going on at the moment and that I should pass him the broken shoes and will get a replacement. I did ... and he even told me a bit more about these - like that you need to level them up.

What does "level them up" mean? Well these shoes have "traits" like bows and stuff. BUT - they also have so called "Flair Points". For example - you have a pair with 14/40 flair points or 10/70. Now what you need to do is to level this points up by breeding them and get more points on them for example 20/40 or 50/70 and in the end somewhen you will get 40/40 or 70/70. ONLY THEN you will get THE shoe the pic is shown ... if you make the wearable with let´s say 35/40 or 60/70 they will miss something and will not be "ready".

BUT - it does not work if you breed the 14/40 pair with the 10/70 pair ... you may get a 10/20 pair out of them for example (happened to me). To level them up you need a x/40 or x/70 pair to breed with other x/40 or x/70 pair ....

DANG! Well I still thought .... okay let´s try that and that makes sense cause this will keep the market for them going. I THOUGHT THAT!

So I bred ... even bought another broom for them (they need the broom to rise enchantment). So here is what you need for them:
• the shoes of course (smallest starter pack is 2200LS)
• a closet (smallest one is 500LS)
• the broom (smallest one is 400LS - but comes with the starter pack)
• the shoe polish as food (smallest one is 400LS - but comes with the starter pack)
I spent 5600LS on them (starter pack with 4 shoes for 4400 and a closet for 800 - only to get started and later another broom for 400).
And I bred an got a lot of other shoe pairs - mostly very "low leveled" ones. I even got another x/70 pair I could breed with my 10/70 pair. But out of 10/70 and 14/70 came 18/70 .... so you can imagine how long it takes till you have a 70/70 pair ....
So I figured out that "low level" shoes will be just worthless ... you can do nothing with them. But I thought - a well try and make a low level pair wearable, let´s see what comes out of them, even if they are not "ready" they will look better than all these freebie shoes ... so you may sell the wearables then (I have seen wearable Charmed Shoes - they DO look good).

But it did not work again. So I IMed Sebastian again ... and THEN ... came the BIG SURPRISE!!!!

He told me that "this function is disabled at the moment" (as always - "the server is down" - lol ppl really think they can use THAT as an excuse). I asked for the reason and this was his original answer:

[08:17] Sebastian Viper (sebastian007.viper): if I have the server on now, MANY people new to our game will try and make shoes into wearables with Flair numbers that would not give them very much Flair options. ex. 14/70 that shoe wuld be VERY basic and people would be upset. Not fully understanding the Game. Therefore frustrating people that our shoes are ugly and would stop playing, because they didnt know how to play.

I was shocked. When I HATE ONE thing than it is when somebody tries to "educate" me.
All I was thinking was - this is WRONG! You as a customer should be able to decide by YOURSELF when you want to do whatever with a breedable you BOUGHT - for a lot of money in this case.
So I discussed with him. He came over and was willing to give me the pair I wanted to turn into wearables as "full filled wearables". But first this was not the point and second he talked to me in a very arrogant way like I was a little child that is not able to count till 3 ... I only was like - WTF????

In the end I told him that I will just stop these shoes and that I think that system really stupid. Cause here is what is my conclusion:

1. You spent a LOT of money only to get started.
2. You need to breed and breed and breed them (I guess it will take weeks and - depending on how high the "end flair points" are - sometimes even months) until you get a "full filled" pair.
3. In that time you need to pay for food and broom and you may even have to buy another closet when the first one is full.
4. That means - you need to spend a lot of money and time before you even can do something with these shoes.
5. The worst thing on this whole thing is - that the creators do decide when they do "allow" their customers to make these shoes wearable - I think that fact is just a bad joke.
6. You will get a lot of "crap" shoes while you try to level them up - but you need not even try to sell them cause nobody would want these "low leveled" shoes ... cause only the points do count, not the "traits" or offsprings. So unlike to other breedables you have nothing to sell until they are "full" or very high leveled. 

So this system is something that will not work in my opinion. My PERSONAL opinion. But all in all these "Charmed Shoes" have been a very big disappointment for me. And manily the FACT that creators decide what their customers are allowed to do and when - this is something I just can not stand. Because of this behaviour I totally lost faith in "Charmed Breedables" and the ppl who are involved in that. Really a shame cause I really thought these shoes a good idea ... but the implementation just sucks for me.

So I thought I should let you know. If you want to try these shoes - just be careful. Have a good look at the prices and how this system "works". And keep in mind that the creators do whatever they want to do and how THEY think it would be the "right way".

And last but not least - YES , these shoes LOOK GOOD as wearables - but .... remember I spent 5600LS .... and got not even ONE pair so far ... so you can imagine how many ALSO VERY GOOD LOOKING and WELL DONE shoes I could have bought for 5600LS .... it is just not worth it (and you KNOW you will NEVER get your money back).