This is the most depressing article I've seen posted on Bluesnews for months.
I've always wondered why the mod community support for NWN at Neverwintervault was awesome compared to that for Dungeon Siege and Morrowind when all three games had impressive editing tool suites released. I guess now I see that it costs 2.5 million to the developer. Nothing in this world is free. Oh well, hopefully the fan-created content for Half-life 2 will take up the slack of the dearth of developers who are willing to foot the bill of supporting their fan modding, just because so many people are likely to buy the game.