This is not nearly as clear cut as people want it to be. Lots of Good people poured their heart and soul into the project for a completely shit bag of a company.
Most of these developers are not wanting you to boycott their work. They are happy you support their fight against Acti-Blizz and how godawful the company is and has allowed things to be but you are not helping the developers when you ignore their products.
The Rot within Acti-Blizzard is only going to get purged by continuing to support the good people and their fight. I know one particular Developer at Blizzard who has been fighting the fight harder than most and even within the company she is still getting attacked by men saying she is being shrill etc. The Good news is that man lost his job just about immediately.
It's unpopular here but I will echo this. I follow a great deal of developers across ABK, a decent amount of them affected directly by this culture at one time or another, some very recently, and this is still the common sentiment among the folks I follow. Many of the employees organized under ABetterABK have emphasized this as well.
None of them, and certainly not I as an outsider, are asking people to buy the games no matter what; if you feel morally that not buying or playing or even talking about the game is the right thing for you to do then more power to you and I support you.
However, if the people who are actively affected by this aren't asking for boycotts and for everyone to not discuss and play the games, then I would prefer to consider that perspective more than my own. I guess I just feel better making the decision to support them the way they are asking me to support them, not in any way that I personally decided was the best way.
For instance, I have a long history with the Crash Bandicoot franchise, both in front of and behind the curtain (albeit years ago now) and often receive their PR and press gifts for Crash-related stuff, to share with my small following. When they sent that piñata out, and the Anniversary assets, I prefaced them with a 10 second intro card describing the employee demands and showing charities the ABetterABK folks have asked people to support. For as long as this goes unsolved, I will continue to do this. I retweet it daily at least once regardless. I regularly retweet employee commentary and perspectives. I regularly retweet employee stories. I have begun making donations to their suggested groups. I feel like I'm doing a lot more to support them this way than I would be by being an individual not playing a video game. That's just my feeling and opinion. It's likely that I'll buy used, if I do buy ABK games.
That said, again, if you
are boycotting, I understand your point of view, and I support you in doing so! Your lines and boundaries and your take on the situation are yours to feel out.
What I don't support is people saying there is only one way and that if you're
not boycotting there must be something wrong with you, or that you don't care about the employees. There is a gulf of difference.
As an aside — people saying judgment against
the actual affected people still at the company for not asking for/supporting boycotts feels really gross to me. I think they are more than entitled to rallying support for their demands in their own ways.