Precisely, admittedly it is easier to jump out as someone and scare them than pretend to die and scare people but that's Saw. The movies aren't necessarily scary unless the whole 'gallons of fake blood and severed limbs' thing really freaks you out, its supposed to be twisted and sick-minded, and the maze doesn't do the films justice.
From a point of view of someone who loves Saw as a whole franchise I can still see where they have missed the point, Saw isn't meant to be scary in the way Thorpe advertise it as.
Take a movie like TCITW: I believe that film isn't meant to be scary also, its meant to change the rules of horror films and take you away from the typical horror film cliché. But Thorpe has advertised it as scary and I have yet to venture inside the maze but I believe the actual story has derailed to become scary for guests, and that's exactly what has happened with Saw.
Dying and being in pain is what Saw is, about making people suffer for what they have done but Thorpe have gone down the wrong route in filling it with jump-scares.
Universal tries its best to mix atmosphere with jump-scares and after watching countless videos on the mazes (yes I know I haven't actually been in them) they don't seem that scary. But after all maybe Thorpe could have really worked by taking a leaf from Universal's book. Some of the sets are there but unfortunately the atmosphere and detail is not in Saw Alive.
No wonder the public go in expecting to be terrified and come out disappointed that really its just a glorified walk through.