Looks like people who use Bukkit aren't going to be too happy. I'm one such person. Unless the guy's who make Bukkit start doing bukkit updates for the pre-releases this isn't good. This is why a few people don't like the pre-releases. So now we won't get an official update until after minecon.
So those of us who want the new features will be forced to update to the pre-release or play on 1.8 until Minecon.
Mojang need to hire the guys that make Bukkit so they can release server updates more efficiently. MC servers are lame and you can't mod them. LONG LIVE BUKKIT!
In a way this is annoying as it means no mods will work until after minecon, but thinking about it if 1.9 came out and it had mods for it then I still wouldn't be able to use them when a prerelease of 1.10 came out.
And that's why this is annoying for us Bukkit users. Bukkit helps me keep people in line on my server while also having great features for the players to use. All that is gone now. Obviously I want to update so I can use the new features and stuff so it looks like people will have to do without bukkit, or continue to play 1.8 for 40 days.
But come on guys, we're on the home stretch here! Minecon is not that far away! After that--minecraft is a full game! Probably fewer updates(saving up for big, themed updates) and so servers will have more time to adjust to the chaos of a new version!
It's like the last mile of a marathon! We're almost there!
I personally have been switching between 1.8 and 1.9 pre releases this whole time. Jumping to 1.8 when I want to play on a server, and plugging in 1.9 when I want to try out new features!
Possibly means the full adventure update=the finished game. Meaning all new content worked on as well as bug fixes will be part of the big finished game?
I'm wondering if this means that they're going to keep adding new content after the 18th of October after all, or whether these pre-releases will be purely related to bug-fixes? If it's the former, I'm a tad worried, in all honesty - this game is in desperate need of optimisation.
I think this new work with the Ender dimension and dragons could honestly have waited until a later patch, after the official Minecraft release. It would have been much simpler to first focus on finishing the features that are still incomplete (*cough*villagers*cough*), and then use the time remaining to clean up all these bugs and memory leaks.
Don't get me wrong, I love the dragons and all, but I find Mojang's erratic update schedule to be quite puzzling.
I think they should just stop. Focus on the previous things and start updating and completing them one by one. Dragons are not an exceptions. Get villagers done first, so we can interact and then Dragons and so we can ask if they need help, and when they say 'Yes! Please assist our poorly made, wooden village!' you could say '**** YOU! I love dragons and so i will get a flint and steel...'
I think people are reading too much into this, notch wants to feed out the performance upgrades and optimization. Why does this annoy server people, prerelease isnt mandatory.
But... They're not even adding any content after the 18th, so... What does this mean?
They are adding. Just because the game exits the beta stages doesn't mean it will stop updating. As long as Mojang stays together Minecraft will be updated.
I like how notch says that the pre-releases are for ADVANCED users. I feel special. But, this just means the 1.8 people have what, another month or so to play and build before their servers get wiped, and when 1.9 comes out, instead of a bunch of little things that require a while new map it'll be one big change that fixes a ton of bugs (hopefully all of them) and adds a ton of new goodies. Notch, I approve!
You know, I wouldn't have actually had too much of a problem with this, except for one major thing. The last official release (1.8.1) is the most bugged-up version of the game in a long while. It was the first adventure update, and hence has issues that really make it almost unplayable... Persistent passives, but no breeding (hence basically finite animals available per chunk). New terrain generation, but it's buggy and missing stuff. Horrible griefer version of the Endermen. Exp orb lag on death (or did they fix this in 1.8.1?). The list goes on...
You know, if they really wanted to stop offering official updates, why in the hell did they choose to stop them after the most unplayably buggy P.O.S. that is 1.8.1?
ANY pre-release of 1.9 would have been a better one to stop at. Hell, as others have said, just finalize the damned terrain generation, and officially release that. Anything would be better than the pile of crap that is 1.8.1.
Looks like people who use Bukkit aren't going to be too happy. I'm one such person. Unless the guy's who make Bukkit start doing bukkit updates for the pre-releases this isn't good. This is why a few people don't like the pre-releases. So now we won't get an official update until after minecon.
So those of us who want the new features will be forced to update to the pre-release or play on 1.8 until Minecon.
Mojang need to hire the guys that make Bukkit so they can release server updates more efficiently. MC servers are lame and you can't mod them. LONG LIVE BUKKIT!
The other way of looking at it is if they didn't do the pre-releases you also wouldn't have the new content of the pre-releases. Having prereleases, and hopefully eventually nightly builds, is nothing but a positive in my eyes.
I think they should just stop. Focus on the previous things and start updating and completing them one by one. Dragons are not an exceptions. Get villagers done first, so we can interact and then Dragons and so we can ask if they need help, and when they say 'Yes! Please assist our poorly made, wooden village!' you could say '**** YOU! I love dragons and so i will get a flint and steel...'
That's what they are doing, hence no more official releases.
I think this is kind of a shift in mentality with a "full" release upon us.
I am disappointed because I thought 1.9 was going to be a quick fix. Villagers just to have them. Return to snow. Some neat extras like shroom biome. Then 1.10, or would it be 2.0?, being all this other cool stuff. From the way things are going each 1.x is going to be a bigger thing now. Each pre-release a buggier but quicker patch that the old patches used to be for.
Looks like people who use Bukkit aren't going to be too happy. I'm one such person. Unless the guy's who make Bukkit start doing bukkit updates for the pre-releases this isn't good. This is why a few people don't like the pre-releases. So now we won't get an official update until after minecon.
So those of us who want the new features will be forced to update to the pre-release or play on 1.8 until Minecon.
Mojang need to hire the guys that make Bukkit so they can release server updates more efficiently. MC servers are lame and you can't mod them. LONG LIVE BUKKIT!
And that's why this is annoying for us Bukkit users. Bukkit helps me keep people in line on my server while also having great features for the players to use. All that is gone now. Obviously I want to update so I can use the new features and stuff so it looks like people will have to do without bukkit, or continue to play 1.8 for 40 days.
But come on guys, we're on the home stretch here! Minecon is not that far away! After that--minecraft is a full game! Probably fewer updates(saving up for big, themed updates) and so servers will have more time to adjust to the chaos of a new version!
It's like the last mile of a marathon! We're almost there!
I personally have been switching between 1.8 and 1.9 pre releases this whole time. Jumping to 1.8 when I want to play on a server, and plugging in 1.9 when I want to try out new features!
Latest MC video (forum link): http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/show-your-creation/videos/lets-plays/2390805
I think this new work with the Ender dimension and dragons could honestly have waited until a later patch, after the official Minecraft release. It would have been much simpler to first focus on finishing the features that are still incomplete (*cough*villagers*cough*), and then use the time remaining to clean up all these bugs and memory leaks.
Don't get me wrong, I love the dragons and all, but I find Mojang's erratic update schedule to be quite puzzling.
They are adding. Just because the game exits the beta stages doesn't mean it will stop updating. As long as Mojang stays together Minecraft will be updated.
So after the minecon there will be no more updates with new contact? :sad.gif:
You know, if they really wanted to stop offering official updates, why in the hell did they choose to stop them after the most unplayably buggy P.O.S. that is 1.8.1?
ANY pre-release of 1.9 would have been a better one to stop at. Hell, as others have said, just finalize the damned terrain generation, and officially release that. Anything would be better than the pile of crap that is 1.8.1.
Oh good, i was worried for a second that minecraft will stop getting contact updates :smile.gif:
The other way of looking at it is if they didn't do the pre-releases you also wouldn't have the new content of the pre-releases. Having prereleases, and hopefully eventually nightly builds, is nothing but a positive in my eyes.
That's what they are doing, hence no more official releases.
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I am disappointed because I thought 1.9 was going to be a quick fix. Villagers just to have them. Return to snow. Some neat extras like shroom biome. Then 1.10, or would it be 2.0?, being all this other cool stuff. From the way things are going each 1.x is going to be a bigger thing now. Each pre-release a buggier but quicker patch that the old patches used to be for.