EA chief creative officer Rich Hilleman has basically said that he thinks Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson needs help distributing Minecraft and that he should put it on Origin.

In an interview with Gamasutra, Hilleman said “What I’ve told the guys who run Origin for us is that we should do it for free, because as you can see my vision of that business, that’s not where the money comes from anyway.”

“As somebody who has had to reinstall Windows on my son’s computer after he attempted to install Mod Manager on that machine, there’s a lot of value to be provided for the customer in making Minecraft and its mods and installations something that’s a more commercial and predictable product. Those are the kinds of things that Notch needs help with, and that without the help of a publisher or other support, he’s probably not going to get there completely by himself.”

“Now maybe his community will, and I’d love to see that happen. It’s a great experiment; I’m really anxious to see what happens. The reason I wish we were involved is because I think we’d learn from him. And the other thing that’s true is Notch is a true talent of this business; I just like us being associated with great talent.”

Actually, he kind of makes sense, but what he is suggesting sounds awfully a lot like Valve’s Steam Workshop, which makes it easy to track and install mods for the likes of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

In response, Notch tweeted the following:

“I’m sure EA is very successful at monetizing games, but the more we don’t do what they would do, the happier I am.” Zing!