{"id":35062,"date":"2012-03-30T01:15:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T23:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35062"},"modified":"2012-03-30T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T08:37:47","slug":"ea-wants-minecraft-on-origin-thinks-notch-needs-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35062-ea-wants-minecraft-on-origin-thinks-notch-needs-help","title":{"rendered":"EA wants Minecraft on Origin, thinks Notch \u201cneeds help\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

EA<\/a> chief creative officer Rich Hilleman has basically said that he thinks Minecraft<\/a> creator Markus \u201cNotch\u201d Persson needs help distributing Minecraft and that he should put it on Origin.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Gamasutra, Hilleman said “What I’ve told the guys who run Origin<\/a> 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.”<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Actually, he kind of makes sense, but what he is suggesting sounds awfully a lot like Valve<\/a>\u2019s Steam Workshop, which makes it easy to track and install mods for the likes of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.<\/p>\n

In response, Notch tweeted the following:<\/p>\n

“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.\u201d Zing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suggests a mod-manager, doesn\u2019t think Notch can do it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":33554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,813,881,333,727,1851],"class_list":["post-35062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-electronic-arts","tag-markus-persson","tag-minecraft","tag-notch","tag-origin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35078,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35062\/revisions\/35078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}