It's all about the money these days,If you don't own a billion dollar games studio then you will never get recognised.The gaming industry is a brutal industry.Even if you create your own game engine and produce quality titles there will always be critics who will say that you cut corners to create your games.Like that one guy "i don't know his name right now'" But he created a new polygon system which could run high end games on a low end pc at the same framerate as highend pc's can.They already criticised him ,Telling him that he is cutting corners and using unfair tricks to get the games to run on low end pc's.
The same goes for 3d cg artworks.If i use a program to create 3d art then it would not even count as art.they say it's to structured therefore it cannot be seen as art.