Matt Enloe

There is no other use-case where you are unable to pause the game, except for the actual loading of a world you are switching to. As the inability to pause is not replicated elsewhere and the limitation is not documented, it is logical to infer that it is a bug.

It may not be an inconvenience to you, but it is up to the developers to mark it "working as intended."

Right, I'm talking about if anyone claims that it's been fixed (he said it hasn't) they need to test it reliably in a server environment on a larger size. It was marked resolved before it was actually fixed.

I, and probably others, would appreciate it being left open until the full release of 1.7 as it may crop up again and most servers will not use snapshots to test - true information on whether it's fixed or not will come from use en masse.

I'm sure Mojang would love to take your feature request into consideration on its own ticket as is appropriate use of JIRA.

This is definitely an issue on my server - to the point where I have required players to light extreme distances around anywhere they keep villagers. I am considering removing Zombies altogether as well until this gets fixed.