J. Walton mmmm no.

If it’s a book or a movie, I can read a review from someone I trust, or look at aggregate opinions via fivestar ratings or Metacritic or whatever. Everyone’s engaging in the same activity (reading a book, watching a movie), which is passive and has no end product beyond the work itself that I care about (other than Opinions). But RPGs, in particular, are incredibly subjective and rely so much on the participants to produce the end product.

I don’t have a super high regard for most of the participants either.