Seriously. I never said PUI would do something different, I just said it opened up possibility to do something different in the future. We've seen how successful the professor rewards program has been. Why wouldn't PUI want the same success for the player rewards program?
Right now nobody can control when and how they spend their reward points. So why would someone care if their friends start spreading a lie that you could spend them on other items? It's not like their friends could even hold out their points waiting to cash them in later.
We can't control what people say. If they are going to read too much into a simple post, they can read too much into any post. Should we stop all future speak all together because of the few people that are going to walk away with the wrong idea?
IMHO, this is a step in the right direction. Player Rewards have been crummy imho. I've always appreciated the free promos, but I've always longed for more than just promos. Now with this new point system, PUI has the ability to do more with the rewards program. Will they? Who knows. But it never hurts to speculate and it never hurts to come up with ideas and post them on this forum for all the players, TOs, PTOs, and PUI staff to read. Who knows? We might give PUI an idea they hadn't though of before.
Japan already has something like this where players can earn points (EXP) and trade them in for rare promos. Why can't america have the same thing?
It never hurts to dream.