Great interview.
I very much agree with Ken Demarest's thoughts on the direction creative games should take. Neverwinter Nights (1), WarCraft III and, to a lesser extent StarCraft (1) have all had robust campaign-creation tools that allowed for a myriad of user-made content to be created. The creation tools focused largely on usability: user-friendly interfaces with creation wizards for everything you could want to make, allowing total newbies to make something. The accessability enriched the community, and there is still user-made content being made for these games to this day.
Neverwinter Nights did indeed have user-made campaigns that far exceeded Bioware's own efforts in NWN.
WarCraft III spawned the MOBA genre with Defense of the Ancients, as well as many games in a similar vein such as Tides of Blood. There was also plenty of other neat custom-maps available; very few of which were focused on traditional RTS combat.
StarCraft's less-advanced map editor allowed for hugely creative custom maps that spanned all sorts of genres, and helped to pioneer some as well. Aeon of Strife in particular is noteworthy, as it was a "proto-MOBA" that undoubtably helped to spawn Defense of the Ancients.
I dearly hope there are more games that are designed in this manner, though it seems increasingly less likely as time goes by.
Neverwinter Nights 2 had a botched launch that destroyed any chance it had for a custom-content community.
StarCraft II is locked down and so heavily restricted in what can be created that there is no hope of anything truly interesting being made. I feel it was designed with monetization in mind above all else.
WarCraft IV is probably a pie-in-the-sky dream at this point...
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