Government control?

...Wait for them to get bored of game A then suggest game B? I don't know. From what I've seen at the few LANWars I've been to, people keep playing their game the whole duration and ignore everyone that doesn't want to play it with them, leaving tiny fragmented groups of people playing MMOs ranging from flavor of the month (SWTOR at the time) to completely dead (Age of Conan private server, what the pineapple?) while the majority play LoL the entire time.

K. My metaphor was a fail. I don't think people in politics are completely amoral beings. Rather, they are ruled by amoral precedent and a peer situation where they are pressured to taking shady actions and playing party politics because everyone else is doing it. Congress has become a funny thing where pork barrel legislation and log roll voting embody the current status of politics being a bartering system where in order to do YOUR job you need to give something in return. Pushing yourself as a moral and righteous person gets you nowhere in politics excepted excluded and when you are an outcast there is no reason for either of the major party lines to respect any trade they made with you. They may promise to help you on an important piece of legislation you want to implement to create jobs in the state, but even if you do them a solid if you have no allies and nothing to jockey their coalition power structure then there is no reason for them to actually follow through with approving funding that you need for your state when they also have similar ambitions in siphoning our taxes into their states for constituent benefits. Politicians who don't want to play the game are forced to choose between becoming lame ducks or becoming part of the herd in order to strong arm positive results for their own constituents.