Throughout many months of playing, I consistently have a level 4 endorsement, yet many games where players are overly toxic and angry that we lost blame other teammates and mindlessly report them. Almost every session I have my endorsement will drop back down to 3 because of games and players like these, and all the endorsement level lets me know is that players are reporting me for throwing or whatever else they’d try just because we had a bad game.
It’s very not fun dealing with this so much and with the knowledge that players are indiscriminately reporting me and other players over losses and I have to stare at my own endorsement level throughout all my time online on Overwatch and seeing messages every other session that my level has gone down and back up without actual reasoning or justification.
It’s not that big of a deal.
I go back and forth between 3 & 4 all the time. There’s literally no harm being done, unless you count your ego.
If you don’t get enough endorsements when you play matches, it decays and drops. It’s not really because of reports.
At each endorsement level, you need a certain number of endorsements per match in order to stay at that level. If you don’t meet that number, your level falls. It’s not because you are being reported.
Personally, I don’t put too much merit in endorsements. Most people don’t take them seriously, and just use them as a way to get a little bit of free xp.
Think of it this way - when your endorsement level goes up, you get free loot boxes. that’s pretty neat.
Your endorsement level drops if you don’t have a specific threshold of x endorsements in y games.
For example you can get 7 endorsements in 1 game but if you did not get much in the past games, you will still drop.
DPS don’t have high levels in my experience, while supports (especially Mercy players) do.
And players of specific modes like Mei Snowball elim have exploding endorsements. I am rly good at this mode and often get 5-7 per game, but I also do play a lot of mystery heroes where its not so obvious who was what and my level drops to 3.
Its not important anyway. I doubt you get reported often…
If you are good enough, you will get endorsed enough to keep that level.
The only time I even drop to lvl 3 is if I get disconnected or something.
The endorsement system is heavily flawed I hope it either gets a major rework or just outright removed
I always try to be friendly to my team, I use my mic and I never blame anyone else (I don’t do it for endorsements) but my endorsement is usually level 2, sometimes 3. Why? Because I play competitive.
And while I can’t provide evidence to suggest so, I dare anyone with a level 4-5 endorsement level to play competitive only (and specifically play DPS) for a week and tell me if they still have their shiny endorsement level
The whole system is just a representation of what modes you play and what roles you mainly play on, it has nothing to do with whether you’re toxic or friendly which was it’s intended purpose
My Endorsement level looks like this:
4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3 -> 4 -> 3
I don’t really care about the endorsement system anymore, and i think it was a waste of time to “fix toxic players” behaviour because that was the original reason why they added this, and it really hasn’t helped at all…
I really hope they don’t have it in ow2 as well because imo it was just a waste of time and doesn’t help us players at all.
I think they should keep it but reduce amounts of votes to 1 and remove the xp reward from it. Currently i always vote on 3 people regardless just to cram some extra xp out of it. It should instead be that if you really thought someone did good or was extra nice you can throw them a small reward in form of an endorsement.
I just want my free lootboxes 
It has some flaws but it’s ok.
Um… why wouldnt we account for my ego?
Seeing as how you can only endorse half your team, even if everyone played well, someone will always be left behind and drop in level. Blizzard knew what they where doing, breeding more toxic nonsense, and should be ashamed of themselves.
I don’t vote on anyone anymore honestly because i don’t see how that’s anything useful? I as a person feel like this system is useless and i don’t feel good either if i see that i get endorsement at all, just because i don’t care.
All you really get is only a small 50 extra amount of xp to your profile or whatever it goes and it’s not really worth anything imo.
If they really wanted to introduce something to at least help better with toxicity, they should have done it better and even reward the players with something more than just 150 xp (if you vote 3 times) like it’s just not anything good.
And i mean why would you even give out xp to ppl if it counts towards your profile to lvl up? There are some ppl who have reached the maxium lvl and can’t lvl up anymore so that reward is pretty useless in that way as well.
EDIT: the only way i can see ppl start using the endrsement system is if blizzard actually puts in real rewards like skins or whatever but that to big right? So i was thinking maybe if they put in like a challange or just something, like let’s say you have to use the system and vote 2500 times and then you can unlock player icons?
Because ow players are all about the cosmetics of the game and if blizzard could really commit to this they could actually maybe use cosmetics to get players attention to actually maybe get involved more into this.
My point was more that since it rewards xp most of us just vote for the xp, not cause someone deserves it. Adding a skin or an icon would just cement those bad habits even more. I think there should be no reward at all, you should endorse someone cause you want them to get recognition, not cause you get rewarded yourself.
Make it an selfless act and those 4s and 5s will inspire alot more when you see them.
Okay haha but i honestly don’t see how this system will even help toxic behaviour in the first place since that was the whole point of this thing. I just think thwy should have done a better job 
All i’m saying is that i’m not using this system anymore because i don’t see a point in it.
There’s literally mention in the blizzard page about endorsements that say they can drop due to reports. nowhere it says they need to be actioned upon, and several people have observed decay on the exact match you have the toxic people on.
Also, blizz doesn’t weigh in with an official explanation, nor want to give details of how endorsements work precisely.
I’ve literally gone up to level 4 in one match, then have toxic people on the next one and it decays. Literally before there’s even a threshold period of voting over. Reports DO count.
My only complaint here essentially is that endorsement is a “thumbs up” option. Don’t wanna give it out? Don’t, it’s your life. But then accounting reports as freebie “thumbs down” is just… how to put it… near-sighted?
I lose out on a whole lootbox because it only ever gives me my rewards on level 3 and not 4. It’s an outrage. #Endorsementsareoverparty #CancelEndorsements
/s
Do you really “lose out”? If it wasn’t implemented in the first place you wouldn’t gain boxes off of rep anyway. There’s no harm being done. What’s there to be outraged about?
sarcasm , hence the /s