I’ll have plenty of games where we win, i get most of the medals and sometimes even potg, we all get on just fine and i don’t get a single endorsement, it’s not because people think I did something wrong, they simply don’t care enough to bother going in to give them out. There’s not really any incentive to go out of your way to bother and there’s not much in the way of rewards, i thought you got loot boxes when you levelled up but i was wrong apparently.
I like the idea of good boy points to make people less salty, i just think we need more of an incentive to actually bother giving them out
Endorsements are absolutely working with helping spread positivity into the game (something it seems many people need help with!)
As time goes on we will be able to clearly see those you would want to exclude from your group. Like reports it’s a numbers game, act positive, try your best and think of the team with hero selection and your number will get bigger.
I agree to a point, as time goes on, people will be less blind about the whole endorsements, more people will think they are worthless and not bother with them.
As of now it’s still on a hype train where people are fooled by the system and obsessed with yet another set of numbers and portrait around their avatar.
So I think they do work for their intended use, to pacify toxic members of the community but slowly said members are waking up.
Endorsements don’t work because it’s an overly-optimistic teddy bear sticker-based placebo that 95% of people use for the XP. To correct you, you get lootboxes at certain points, and the amount you get is just based on whatever level you happen to have at that time.
The reduction in toxicity is more due to increasing penalties received; abusive chat bans used to start at 3 days chat ban then double every time. Now it’s 6 and double every time, and after the second time they start full banning. Ironically that just makes me hop on this account and now I know I won’t collect enough reports before the ban’s up so I’m free to remind snipers they’re bad and boosted on an easy click-to-win character after I kill them on ana or zen.
It’s also due to private profiles so there’s less ammunition; most comments used to contain something about someone’s main or rank, but now it’s just empty trash talk.
It completely depends on the heroes actually. Mercy mains rake in the endorsements while a DPS player might do well but not get anything because of the inherent bias against them.
Furthermore QP players are advantaged in comparison to competitive players because the QP matches are at least twice shorter so you can play more and gain more endorsements.
It is an inherently flawed system that shows nothing and only gives you a small amount of bonus exp.
They really don’t work, I have good and bad games I have to admit, either way I end up with endorsements people just spam them for the sake of spamming them, it makes zero different to the game just another number for the game to bugger up to be honest
I honestly try to use the endorsement system every single game. After I endorse everyone I’ll typically get endorsements back. Not because they can tell that I gave them one but perhaps it provoked them to do the same? I’ll also try to say something positive, especially if we lost. It’s not about the endorsements though. Losing a game is rough so it’s always nice to hear some recognition, and in a way you get thanked for those efforts now with the endorsement system.
I also have a system for the endorsements since I can’t give everyone one. Tank, Healer, and people who switch characters. I like to see that kind of critical thinking and so I reward it. Sadly a lot of DPS don’t get my vote, but at least 1 DPS player does out of the (usually) 2 does.
Nah, there is no QP advantage because of shorter games and playing more. The number of endorsements per match is part of Setting the individual level thresholds. This leads to the totally absurd situation where playing a session during the afternoon with a large player pool and thus lots of endorsements might have you level up, only to have you drop again if you play another session late at night when you’re mostly stuck with the same People over and over and your rate drops because those that would endorse can’t do it more than once.
I Keep bouncing back and forth between 3 and 4 because of that. Like one of the worst things you apparently can do is to play by yourself during the day and then stack up with friends in the evening when everybody got off work. Sure and certain way to have your afternoon progress evaporate.
Yup. Excactly what happens. Even just a streak of losing a couple of games where people are less likely to endorse might have you drop again. If your rate of endorsements per match drops, your level is soon to follow.
That doesn’t make sense especially when you consider your point about playing with friends. That shouldn’t in any way be affecting your score. You should also be able to endorse the same person as many times as they are a good team mate if you keep running into them randomly. Like what Blizzard, you think it was all planned and when I see JAKE6969 I will make sure he gets endorsed cause he’s my besty!
Oh well… hopefully this is something they’d be willing to fix. It is after all a brand new system.
I usualy just endorse the healers on out team and if i can one ore more healers on the other because in my opinion people that chooses to play a healer the most boring and unrewarding role in the game deservs a endorsement. for me it does not matter if you have all golds or get potg i will never endorse a strikt dps player and i dont expect a endorsment from anyone else when im playing dps
i’m now stuck in the bronze dung pit… no way to climb out of it (appart from finding a decent team)
i ONLY endorse players who i think are worthy of it… haven’t endorsed a single player on my team the whole friggin weekend!
it’s just an other half baked trash system like SR… yup, your win/loss realy shows how good you are… you get matched with trash? ok then you go down with the trash and become trash yourself.