Ever since the endorsement system was implemented in Overwatch I have seen a good size amount of decrease in toxicity and seeing more people encouraged to act in a better (real or fake) behavior for getting rewards, since its working in that game why not also implement it here too?
Thoughts?
Edit:
Seems some people never heard of the system so I’ll shed some light with this link:
You can’t feel statistics and you can’t see people’s thoughts. It’s just your imagination.
Thoughts?
Yours.
What endorsement system? I don’t play OW.
I will say they’ve tried the stick method of moderating toxicity. Now switching to using the carrot may work here where it has had little success in other games,
It’s an interesting system, I approve. If anything, there are games where someone does a good amount of shot calling, being helpful or just positive, but you can’t even +1 them as they aren’t present on MVP screen. Also free loot, yay!
Instead of the game telling the 10 players that 5 players got this and that during the MVP reward screen, Overwatch let’s players choose when and what and who to reward. It’s like a reputation/medals system that also gives candy.
At the beginning it was not cool because it was like a quest that gave you XP, so that all players use it and learn what it is, but everyone clicked randomly on random players just to see what’s up.
Then it became cool because once everyone knew what’s up, it resets everything, but keeps the visual stats for the public, just so that they say stuff about roll-backs.
I like the sound of it, though does it get abuse with people only upvoting friends?
People who are friends to each other cannot give endorsements to one another in Overwatch, so this won’t be different in HotS anyways.