Update: I don’t know if it had anything to do with my review or if others reported a similar issue, but within a short time an update was released and my problem is fixed. Kudos to the development team for resolving the issue. Original review: I have been playing the game for awhile and am on level 1650-ish, but haven’t been able to fully open the game for two days. I see an update was applied at that time. The game opens on my iPad and a window opens saying “league is over” with a section of that window saying “loading”. That never goes away and the “x”button to close the window does nothing. Has anyone else reported the problem? I don’t want to delete the game and lose over a year’s worth of playing along with the money I occasionally put into it to help me along, I am only giving two stars since my game stopped working…would have given more had I reviewed it previously…this is just for this latest version.

I’ve been playing Bubble Pop Origin for several months. I became frustrated by all the ads and payed extra for “ad-free” play. I really enjoyed the game at first, but like most app-based games now-a-days, the further along you get in the game, the more and more you must rely on in-app purchases and/or voluntarily watching ads to get additional tokens and tools (i.e., bombs, rockets, etc)., in order to progress further in the levels. When you complete a level, the app gives you gold coins in a piggy bank, but unless you pay a fee for the extra-large piggy bank, you’re capped at 1000 gold coins. But what are those coins for? They’re different than the coins you spend to extend play on the puzzles, and I don’t see anything in the app to indicate what a player can purchase with those piggy-bank coins. I also find it extremely annoying that the app constantly “pimps” the player to purchase token/tool packages! I am at the point now where I’ll probably play the game until I run out of tokens and tools, and them remove the app from all of my devices. To the developers: Thanks for a nice game! It’s been fun, but it’s time for me to move onto something different.

I’m out of here! Played almost 1200 levels, but this last update makes this game impossible to play! Ads now at least 2.5-3 minutes long, then won’t leave! Gotta leave the game, come back in to another 3 minute add. If you like to play while eating lunch and having an occasional game with mostly ads, this is for. It’s no longer for me, I’m out of here! Too bad, so sad, but it’s no longer playable.UPDATE: Tried again. Ad loads in; 45 seconds later, can’t get rid of the ad . . . Floats between App Store and X to leave the ad, back and forth. Stopped the game, reset, all efforts now lost and the cycle starts over without any reward received for the several minutes of messing with several ads. Irritated, I timed the process: 3-1/2 MINUTES! Then I had to start over. This is new: ad loads in (45 secs), clear it when done, another ad loads in (30 secs), clear it and I’m off to the app store; close app store and X the ad . . . Yup . . . Back to the app store, over and over and over. Truly done now; there are many other bubble pop games and I’m off to try a new one. Unfortunately, this once really fun and relaxing game has become an irritant. Bye bye, sad to leave but sadder to be irritated all the time.

This game has bugs that will make you lose. I’m at level 1225 and for example.. you have two green balls together that you know you can pop with another green ball, you aim, shoot but nothing happens and it just sticks together with the rest of the green balls. This happen to me 4 times already and everytime it does happen and you try to pop it again after the first fail, guess what it also sticks and doesn’t pop. My guess is that the ball I threw was different ball but the program colored it green or maybe the balls in the field are actually another color but the game mistakenly colored it different. So imagine losing balls trying to pop that group that cost you the game and loosing winning streaks. How in the world are you going to achieve many winning streaks if this happens? I can imagine the people that actually spend money on this and then something like this happens. It would’ve been nice if the game recorded the gameplay with screenshots to where a player can dispute the loss and so that the developers see it and reset that level to give players another chance on that level, because trying again without a reset takes away your “first try” win.