I’m endorsing opponents all the time with this system, and not to chase some reward, but because I feel they deserve it.
I take issue with the fact that it discourages making friends and teaming up and forming clans. I have no issues interacting with the community at large, or the overarching goal that the system is trying to achieve.
Remember that even if I could endorse friends, I’d still be encouraged to endorse strangers since I can only endorse a friend once every 12 hours. It would take a lot of work and commitment to abuse the system. The risk and work to reward ratio just isn’t there.
It doesn’t discourage making friends. The benefit of friends is friendship.
Nobody should get rewarded for things they didn’t do, and it is not punishing people to not give them a reward they didn’t earn.
This reward is for playing nice with strangers. If you never play with strangers, then you didn’t earn it.
It’s that simple.
I guess you can hand out 3 sportsmanship endorsements to your opponents, which means that 6 stacks of friends aren’t getting entirely screwed, and are just encouraged to respect their opponents.
Don’t get me wrong, I still don’t like the system. I still think that people will abuse it by grouping up, unfriending each other, and farming endorsements that way, and it will just be the honest people missing out, but I guess I can deal with the way things are for now. Just because I hate the implementation doesn’t mean I hate the overall system, or the idea behind it.
I’ll admit, a big part of the reason why this miffs me is because they’ve done such a poor job helping clans and social groups thrive in this game. After two years of waiting for social tools in this team based game, I’m pretty unwilling to accept much short of perfection, and that fact might be blinding me somewhat to objectivity.
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That’s fair, and I respect that you acknowledge that a lot.
If it makes you feel any better, they said another big social system is upcoming. I really would be floored if it wasn’t an actual support system for clans.
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There would be a bias in that endorsement. When I endorse strangers I don’t do it because I like them, I do it because they are good players.
If you could endorse friends some people might abuse it to act poorly in games, but their friends would still give them positive endorsements. There are always people trying to game the system. This is no exception.
It sounds bad, but like just remove and re-add your friend directly from the endorsement menu. They have made it really easy to bypass this “can’t endorse your friend thing” by letting you right click them in the endorsement menu and removing and then re-adding.
Honestly, I play with the same group of people. The same 5 of play all the time and we just remove each other and give each other the endorsements. That doesn’t prevent us from giving it to anyone else later on, but there are that many times that my endorsements go without use simply because no one even bothered to say “GG” or there was only one player on my team that I felt truly deserved it. If I am not using all my endorsements, I may as well be giving them to my friends because I wouldn’t have made friends with them if I didn’t think that they were nice and fun in the first place and you are restricted to every 12 hours for an individual.
Besides, lets be honest. Some people are just throwing out endorsements like candy. On average I probably get 3 endorsements a game and that doesn’t come from my friends and all I have said is “good game :)”, the friends endorsing each other thing doesn’t stop the fact that so many people are not even thinking hard about where to place their endorsements.