Certainly not. They would have said so if they were; there's no point tiptoeing about something like that.

And yes, you should. ...Perhaps not so much 'fear' as 'be cautious of'. Game or not, this is as much an exercise in the human psyche as anything. If the 30 of us can agree that we won't participate, then splendid. We win. However... I doubt it will be like that.