Yeah, I agree that this is Simcity Buildit, not Simcity War. Club wars is a great addition to boost interactivity of the game. But the latest update requires us to heavily invest in wars and getting less rewards at that! Please note that we play Simcity Buildit in the first place to build cities, not playing war games.
And I like the idea about adding Platinum war chest. If EA only changes the goal post for gold chests, it is still quite acceptable, but to change it for silver chests is way too much. If EA thinks that this is going to push us to spend real money, well, it is not going to work on me. With cheaters and feeders (I had just fought another feeder team—tell tale sign: they have high war points but have lots of low level cities) around, I don’t see the point of upgrading my attacks since there is no way to win them unless my team put all our focus on it. In fact, at one point, I wanted to stop attacking when I got 6k because 12k for next SILVER chest, not even gold, seems too much of an effort.
In addition, one of my teammates told us that he didn’t get any rewards after war. What is this? All the efforts for absolutely nothing? I was feeling pretty bummed about getting far less rewards already. I can’t imagine how he felt to get NOTHING.
EA, do you have any plans to compensate us for terrible lags and glitches experienced earlier? One thing Niantic (developer of Pokémon Go) always do better than you is that they acknowledge the problems and give some freebies to us when they don’t deliver. Maybe it’s time to learn some PR skills from them. With all the money you have, I’m surprised that you couldn’t get better people to do planning and development.