Eternal City South East Asia (SEA) server publishers, X. D. Global, are back at it again, trying to milk their players a hell of a lot more than other servers.

For those not aware, over a month ago on June 11th, 2019, X. D. Global released an update for Eternal City that was supposed to bring a new welfare unit to the game. Instead , the company decided to put that welfare unit in the Gacha pool for the game. Suffice to say, this angered a lot of players. If you want a full account of these events, you can find them here as well as the follow up article here.

I did not think that I would have to write another article covering X. D. Globals greedy monetization practices again so soon after the Coruno incident. But alas, here we are. So what did X. D. Global do this time?

A few days ago on Wednesday, July 17th, a new update for Eternal City was released that introduced a new event: Summer Fireworks Display. During this event, players can send off one of two types of fireworks a day. Depending on the type of fireworks that the player sets off they will gain affection with a unit. After certain affection milestones are reached, the player will unlock a story segment.

But here’s the kicker. The second firework type, Fireworks of Masters were put behind a paywall in the SEA server. In previous servers, there was a companion event to this that gave Fireworks of Masters, but in the SEA server that companion event is no where to be seen. Instead, in order to get Fireworks of Masters, a player has to spend 520 gems, about 5-7 USD per Fireworks of Masters.

This is simply another way that X. D. Global is trying to milk the SEA fans of this game. However, X. D. Global will most likely never change these business practices. Due to the Coruno incident, most of the players who will raise their voices at practices like these seem to have left the game already. Now, with less people to call them out, X. D. Global can continue to put practices like these into Eternal City, milking the SEA server as much as they want.

This is not right. So I leave this news update with a request for any remaining Eternal City players. Please understand that X. D. Global is trying to milk as much money as they can out of you to the detriment of the game. At the very least, you should not spend money on the game until X. D. Global acknowledges these scummy practices and says that they will stop. Do not let X. D. Global ruin your experience with this game any more than they already have.