Minecraft Delayed AGAIN!!!

[PedroSteckecilo]

um... Aren't Minecraft updates free?

 

[kouriichi]

um... Aren't Minecraft updates free?

Yes. 100% free.
And if you bought it when it was only 12.99 USD, you get all future versions, updates, special modes, and expansions for free.

The horror that you bought this good of a game AT A STEAL and now have to wait 5 more days for an update is just unbearable! What ever shall we do?

 

[Baneat]

I'd rather have a delayed update that's stable rather than a rushed one with bugs and glitches up the wazoo. Just be patient. Remember the old adage, "good things come to those who wait."

I'm just trying to figure out what episode that comes from, help me out?

OT: Meh, 5 days.

 

[Phisi]

I don't really mind. They are the developers and I'm quite happy for them to do what they want as long as the provide me with a game and hopefully an API so I can use mods to fix anything I don't like.

 

[Aprilgold]

ITT: Nerd rage.


Seriously, good on Mojang to delay it. Means there's less chance of bugs in it.

And I'll point this out while I can, Minecraft is in beta, people who bought the game are, essentially, beta testing it. Therefore, all their doing is witholding tests for players to tell them the bugs, I don't know, the few MILLION [I think] testers out there.

So I suppose releasing a patch so badly broken we can't play at all is helping us find things?

The players are finding the small, rare bugs. The big game breakers should be found and remedied before a patch goes out at all.

Again, if they were game breaking, and the devs knew, then this delay is fine, but if ITS NOT known, thats the point of beta, the devs should be focusing on making the game better, and allowing the testers actually weed out bugs for them, instead of them trying to make each patch flawless.

 

[Wintermoot]

it IS a giant update so I think they are working out the last of the bugs.

 

[Death God]

I'm with everyone else here. The longer we wait, the less bugs we have to sit through.

 

[Havzad]

cool your jets! for all you know they probably found a game running bug just before release and actually decided to fix it instead of handing you a faulty game that you will just end up whining about!

listen, mojang AB is probably one of the nicest dev companies out there right now, the least you can do is give them some slack.

 

[Astoria]

Oh no? I'm sure all you people can survive a few more days for this update.

 

[Aprilgold]

ITT: Nerd rage.


Seriously, good on Mojang to delay it. Means there's less chance of bugs in it.

And I'll point this out while I can, Minecraft is in beta, people who bought the game are, essentially, beta testing it. Therefore, all their doing is witholding tests for players to tell them the bugs, I don't know, the few MILLION [I think] testers out there.

So I suppose releasing a patch so badly broken we can't play at all is helping us find things?

The players are finding the small, rare bugs. The big game breakers should be found and remedied before a patch goes out at all.

Again, if they were game breaking, and the devs knew, then this delay is fine, but if ITS NOT known, thats the point of beta, the devs should be focusing on making the game better, and allowing the testers actually weed out bugs for them, instead of them trying to make each patch flawless.

...So you're perfectly fine with, say, for example, Obsidian doing that?


Frankly, I'm fucking tired of it. Every dev in the market it seems, Valve excluded, seems to treat their customers as free beta testing. I'd love to see Mojang set an example, fixing the vast majority of the bugs before they release the update at all instead of letting us facepalm at the ruined savegames...again.

Any triple A developer gets no god damn slack from me if they pull this shit. But mojang is indie, therefore, we can at least TRY to help.
Simple math below.
Paying 60$ for beta testing is a NO NO!
Paying 15$ at quarter of retail price is ALRIGHT, and the game hasn't been release.

If its game breaking, then the devs should catch it, very fast. If they DON'T catch it, then the players [testers in Mojangs case] should report it. Again, you compared a INDIE developer to a triple A developer, both have a different amount to work with.

 

[Loop Stricken]

inb4 released patchnotes are simply;


-removed Herobrine

 

[karamazovnew]

Nooooooooooooooooo. Just 5 minutes ago, barely woke up I started the launcher to see if there was any news on the patch. Oh well, considering that I might never need another game, patience will be rewarded in the end.

 

[Xangi]

ITT: Nerd rage.


Seriously, good on Mojang to delay it. Means there's less chance of bugs in it.

And I'll point this out while I can, Minecraft is in beta, people who bought the game are, essentially, beta testing it. Therefore, all their doing is witholding tests for players to tell them the bugs, I don't know, the few MILLION [I think] testers out there.

So I suppose releasing a patch so badly broken we can't play at all is helping us find things?

The players are finding the small, rare bugs. The big game breakers should be found and remedied before a patch goes out at all.

Again, if they were game breaking, and the devs knew, then this delay is fine, but if ITS NOT known, thats the point of beta, the devs should be focusing on making the game better, and allowing the testers actually weed out bugs for them, instead of them trying to make each patch flawless.

...So you're perfectly fine with, say, for example, Obsidian doing that?


Frankly, I'm fucking tired of it. Every dev in the market it seems, Valve excluded, seems to treat their customers as free beta testing. I'd love to see Mojang set an example, fixing the vast majority of the bugs before they release the update at all instead of letting us facepalm at the ruined savegames...again.

Any triple A developer gets no god damn slack from me if they pull this shit. But mojang is indie, therefore, we can at least TRY to help.
Simple math below.
Paying 60$ for beta testing is a NO NO!
Paying 15$ at quarter of retail price is ALRIGHT, and the game hasn't been release.

If its game breaking, then the devs should catch it, very fast. If they DON'T catch it, then the players [testers in Mojangs case] should report it. Again, you compared a INDIE developer to a triple A developer, both have a different amount to work with.

Mojang is hardly indie when it comes to funding, and frankly, if they incrementally released this new patch instead of keeping it some big secret, it could be debugged sooner. Also, what he means is, when I load up a new save file with a new patch, and withing 10 SECONDS I encounter a bug, that is unacceptable. Obscure crashes I can understand, but when (for example) the halloween update came out, and I went through my portal and back, and ended up 100 blocks away from it (which was reproduceable in 1.2.0 btw), that should have been fixed prior to release. When you break the graphics of a block (redstone) in a very obvious way, that should be fixed before release. When pistons break saves under certain conditions that are not exactly hard to reproduce by accident, that should be fixed before release. My point is, they barely even play their patches half the time, and seem to have no consideration for their paying customers. The least they could do is spend an hour playing their own damn game in the office before ok-ing the release.

 

[Varitel]

We've waited this long, we can wait 4 more days. No need to be upset about it. If you've ever worked in industry, you know how easily timelines can get away from you.

 

[Abengoshis]

OP is an entitled little brat who wants everything his own way and doesn't understand the consequences of releasing an unfinished version which has gained so much hype. Its less than a week away, and Mojang are working hard on the game. I think you've been spoiled by the previous torrent of updates from 1.6 to 1.7.3. Games don't get developed in the blink of an eye, they need time and patience. Also the people at Mojang are only human, they can't just constantly code and produce an end product without having a few bugs in their code.

 

[brunothepig]

I can't be sure, but I was under the impression that the 8th was never "confirmed" as such. It was either a target, that people assumed was a definitive release date when it was mentioned, or it was the time when they could say when the patch was likely to be released. If anyone has a source saying otherwise, let me know. Either way, why the fuck does it matter? 4 days? You're bitching about 4 days?

 

[MissGinaKid]

I'm not dissipointed in the slightest though I have a huge bias on that since September 12 is my brithday and I can think of it as a birthday present.