Ninja Scooter
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Correct me if I'm wrong on this as it has been some time, but wasn't the moral of La Noir's development that publishers shouldn't be profiteering off of studios offering poor work conditions? It's not okay to run game development studios as neo-slave labour work environments. As a publisher, it's not okay to fund those studios, and as a consumer, it's not ethical to validate the development and publication of games made within those work conditions, by purchasing the game.
I wouldn't knowingly purchase anything from a company selling something where the workers involved were not fairly treated. So in that sense, it doesn't make sense to purchase a remaster of this game, just as it didn't make sense to purchase a remaster.
Right or wrong, what you are describing barely gained any traction when it was first reported, let alone 5 years later, so I doubt it factored at all into Rockstar's decision, and will likely not at all factor into consumer decisions to purchase a remaster.