Not really, there are up to 4 cards and it can range from all your team to all red team, so you can’t give a pat on the back to whomsoever you choose unless their card is selected. Someone could have done a good job at your team but isn’t given a card because someone on the other team got that card instead.
People used the cards, when the game was released. Then a couple of months later, it’s rarely used. So lets see how long endorsements actually will work. And beside, what is the point of a system that is suppose to be representative to a good player, when people are just throwing their votes around randomly for the sake of XP?
I would never endorse then. Even if you are the best teammate shot-caller or nicest person, I wouldn’t waste my time. Why should I if there is nothing in it for me. Call me selfish, yeah I am. I don’t care about some random person in a game, I care about myself and only myself and if I get the tiniest incentive to endorse where someone falls into those categories, I might do it. Otherwise, I’m not wasting my time giving someone points without something in return. I only care about myself and those around me and some random doesn’t fall into one of those categories.
“No matter how much of an effort you may make to be a nice or helpful teammate to me, it’s still too much to ask of me to make two clicks to acknowledge you, because I only care about myself.”
the 50 exp encourages people to actually use it. I always throw it at 3 people I believe deserve it, be it on my own team or the enemy team. I actively avoid giving it to anyone I think doesn’t deserve it. Usually there’s enough decent human beings in a game of 12 people to give out 3. The system works fine.
because it’s not meant to be used on “truly great people” It’s meant to be used on people who are okay-to-nice, and not on jerks. It’s a subtle way to know who the less kind people are.
I rarely touch the LFG and i can already say that people are a lot less toxic in soloQ quick play. yeah you still get the odd outright toxic person in chat but they seem to be few and far between. But i also see people endorsing less already, i used to get an endorsement just for picking healer/tanks and now i dont lol, especially if we lose. So people already dont care about the exp or the endorsement level. Also even if endorsements disincentivizes people from leaving, they still do. And the people who care about endorsements just throw if they cant leave.
I think if endorsements actually changed match making it would make it less trivial, like higher level endorsements would group you up with other people of high level endorsements.