This bug is connected to "fixed" bug MC-57516
In 1.7 CustomNameVisible was working for all entities. In 14w21b too. But in 14w25a bug MC-57516 appeared.
In 14w29a Searge fixed this bug, but only for non-mob entities!
"The CustomNameVisible tag does not work on animals and mobs, because they have different rules about showing the name. For the other entities it should work." -Searge
But that is a bug! It was a good, working feature previously and then it was removed!
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But MC-57516 says the bug is fixed. And you can't say that bug which I'm describing is fixed. Not-fixed bug shouldn't be a dupe of fixed bug :/
MC-57516 stated that its only fixed for items, but not animals / mobs due to different rules about showing the name.
But why these rules are NOW different?! Before the bug, rules were the same for all entities and that was useful.
I agree. I confirm this was working before, so it would be stupid to just change the rule now. What about people wich need this feature. Why shouldn't this just work on mobs too? No real reason. This was working good before. Why change? Pleace fix mojang.
Not working with mobs is still an issue in 1.8-pre1. This report or MC-57516 should be reopened!
Still a dupe of MC-57516