We wanted to clarify and answer all complaints about spikes. We've added them to prevent people chasing bubble off-game since this causes accidental clicks everywhere including ads, which does nothing good to anybody. We're not sure why people think it was so much better before them. By default bubble hits spikes at about x4.5 starting amount. When it's totally off-screen, it's x5.4. Realistically you can click it at about x5.0 amount. So adding spikes reduced your gain from the bubble by ~11%. Is it really that huge? Even with upgrades, percentage-wise it's the same.
Still, we've added meta-upgrade to remove them since there were so many complaints. It's not free as they do serve to protect against accidental clicks, but for people who absolutely want the way it was before, it's still possible to remove them.
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