As being a path into the future, I can see where the glitch can hurt them now. but, if they correct the glitch, people will eventually create a boycott of these microtransactions. Keep in mind that they will surely revise the way it works for these micro-transactions of they do not get the expected results.
Once, a averageley known Fictional Character explained to another that the future isn't written yet. Yet the setting in which they were is fictionous but the advice is as real as it is ever going to be.
If Sony and PD gets S.O.L. from microtransactions, expect them to be removed from the game, and rewrads for the races to raise.
But, The glitch is not a good moral move IMO. Yet nothing refrains us from doing it, Think of it as if you were offered the keys of Fort Knox, and being told that nobody will see them stealing from it...