I'm not a gamer, but am a champion of gamers - in the literary field, they're underdogs, along with comic book artists/writers and graphic novelists - their talent is greatly underestimated, under-valued.
As a science fiction fanatic, I stayed in the closet for years -
in college (early 1980s) not one professor I knew of even mentioned sci-fi. Much less comic books or gaming (back then, it was Pac Man or Mario Brothers, maybe)