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It takes exactly one instance to establish that what you're selling can affect gameplay. There are dozens of people playing Carrion Fields. The idea that none of them have ever, even in the slightest, been affected in-game by what you guys sell is naive, at best, and severely misunderstands the pervasiveness of inter-player communication (which you cannot monitor since they can just do it off-game).
If there are consequences, gameplay has been affected. The consequences themselves are evidence of that. Punishing someone after the fact doesn't remove the influence. Claiming that because it's punished afterwards it has no effect is like saying Blizzard isn't affected by gold-farming because it's against their policy.
Keep in mind that nobody is saying this has a huge impact on Carrion Fields. My guess is that the impact is quite small, but you can't really have a check box that says, "Optional payments may have an effect...but it's small" without a way to tangibly measure that effect, and someplace to draw a line along the continuum from small effect to much larger effect.
--matt
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