Yes, of course. But what has that anything to do with employees? Developers are not employees, they are the developing company.

In the comment you replied to they meant video game development companies by “developers” not the individual employees at those companies who do the actual work of developing games. Typically the actions of video game development companies are driven by the MBAs who have most of the big picture decision making power rather than the individual employees who develop the games.

The developer company has a choice. They rather maybe not prefer it, but that’s what it is. But saying the word “hate” is wrong.

Everyone in this thread is failing to understand that “developers” in this context can mean both “people who develop videogames” and “businesses that develop videogames.” As the people who develop videogames are not always the ones who make decisions like this at businesses that develop videogames those two different things that everyone is using the same word for often have opposing positions on the matter.

Hating is a strong word. Dislike, maybe.

It’s still a choice. I have been on the bad end of these deals and I just said no. I was fired and all.

I don’t think they hate it, they just not prefer it. But saying the word “hate” means that it is their line that they won’t cross, which is false.