I know I'm not one to complain, but I'm thinking these updates are taking way to long for the amount of content they actually release. Why are they taking so long? Bug fixes. In my opinion Mojang is focusing so much about the tiniest of bugs and not any new features. It's been about a year since 1.7pre came out. I feel it should not take a whole year! I shouldn't complain I know, and I'm not very patient, but I feel like 1.9 snapshots should come before the years over.
Everyone was complaining about how the Plugin API wasn't out yet, so they focused a lot of their time and energy this year working on getting the back-end code ready for it. They also fixed hundreds of bugs that the users had been reporting. I would rather have a feature-complete and bug-free game than a huge buggy mess with a lot of unfinished content.
-EmeraldMods
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