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Originally Posted by Parallex
I'm not suggesting that they're stupid babies because they sign players for longer than 5 years. Signing players is a choice and it's their job to determine whether that choice is good or bad in it's totality. What this tells me is that GM's are making bad choices in totality and want to be saved from their own bad choices not through any reflection or re-evaluation but by just removing choice. I'm suggesting that they're like babies because it's all "now now now now" they choose to ignore the long-term consequences of their actions in favor of immediate gratification and now want to be not face the consequences of their actions... which is a characteristic I most associate with small children not middle-aged+ adults.
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Are you not ignoring the dynamics that surround these positions. Are these dumb people, or are they people incentivized to do the less than ideal things. Such as pressure from their owners and average tenure of a GM.
I would put forth that I don't think these are dumb people. I think the system and incentives create these behaviors.
We can all sit here and say if we were a GM we would take a long-view and make rationale choices for that, but if your owner says "i want to win now" what do you do?