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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8202220" data-attributes="member: 71699">Your thesis is that most people don't give their highest ratings to their favourite things? Through my work I regularly read detailed player ratings of games, and I do not see the behaviour that you are imagining. Things people feel 'meh' about, they normally give 'meh' ratings. Players typically have to feel very satisfied to give a game a strong positive rating.Most people won't even bother rating a thing they hate (it's true that if someone has a really bad experience, that might motivate them to give a negative rating). When a game is niche, you more often see a small number of very positive ratings so the aggregate rating is high: the only people playing it, tend to be those who love it. You probably know this already but - the smaller the number of ratings, the greater the volatility in the ratings. That is why the 5E ratings are so meaningful: they represent a very strong positive sentiment.The OP outlines "The Cheesecake Factory Theory of TTRPGs" - not of "D&D versions" - based on their words, their aim is not simply to place D&D among previous versions of D&D (although who knows, maybe they just obscured their intent). The OP puts it that "I would argue that there are other, better TTRPGs out there for many uses" and that broad argument is followed up by many other posters to this thread. So far as I can find, the OP does not even reference another version of D&D in their first post. There is no reason to dislike evidence that the OP might be mistaken.For me, you are wrong to suppose I am defending D&D because it needs defending. I am refuting the OP because they are mistaken: their theory is facile. They say that "5e isn't a great game in any given aspect" and this is simply mistaken: there are many aspects in which 5E is a great game.</blockquote>

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