There's a need for any serious server, bukkit is needed and I don't think Mojang is really understanding how much its needed, they should delay the release to the public until a stable version of bukkit is available for server owners, there's no way to have a public server without bukkit so you can be sure if there's no 1.3 update of craftbukkit ready when the 1.3 is out, a load of people will be really angry, including a load of server admins that won't be able to keep up with the constant load of players asking them why their server isn't on 1.3 yet, and to be even worst, even if they get a good port in time for the real release of the 1.3, most servers won't be able to upgrade because they need plugins to work with the new craftbukkit 1.3 to protect the server from griefing, cheating, hacking, bug abuse and such before upgrading (and lord knows that there will be a load of teams that will look for every bugs or any glitch they can find to grief and make people mad at them on many servers)



Lucky for me, my server is running Tekkit and won't have to upgrade to 1.3 before at best Christmas or maybe after when all the mods used in it are ported to the 1.3 then ported to smp then ported to bukkit... which would take a long time



But for all the others that are running vanilla bukkit servers, good luck for you, I can't imagine how many emails or forum posts you will have to face when the 1.3 is out and the casual Minecraft player won't be able to connect because they updated quicker than lightning without thinking and won't know how to downgrade...

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