[DarkMaster]

He said this a long time ago, Hideo Kojima agrees with him.

They aren't art, they are a product. Artists work on video games, yes. The skills needed to developing certain aspects of video games are, in fact, artistic. But these artists work for a client who decides what they create, and their creative vision is limited to various bounderies, such as deadlines, budgets, platform, and many other things.