The endorsement system is annoying, unrewarding and serves no purpose.
Back in Overwatch 1 I was consistently endorsement level 4, it felt rewarding due to extra lootboxes and I felt that I could reward my teammates and my opponents for good teamwork or sportsmanship or callouts by choosing specific categories that I felt they did well in. The old system used to actively encourage sportsmanship and that was a good thing, it reduced toxicity even if people were only saying gg to get endorsements, it created a nicer environment.
Now it’s worse than pointless. If anyone bothers to give endorsements at all, it’s usually just for win contribution because there’s no longer any categories to guide players towards rewarding certain behaviour. I frequently win a game and go up to endorsement level 4, then lose a couple of games and fall right back down again. It repeats over and over. I’m sitting right at the boundary between endorsement levels 3 and 4 and constantly get notified when I go up or down. It’s like an extra kick in the teeth to lose a game and then get told I’ve lost an endorsement level when there’s literally nothing I could have done about it. It doesn’t even mean anything. It just either means that I won a game and my teammates are happy, or I lost and they’re all sulking. I’m sick of seeing the notifications, I want to turn them all off. I don’t care about endorsement level anymore. There’s not even any reward anymore anyway, just a few xp points at the end of the week, it’s so unrewarding, endorsement level is literally worthless now.
To top it off, if I play with my friends, it means that fewer people are able to endorse me and it seems like the system doesn’t compensate for that so I invariably fall down a level. I literally get punished for playing with friends.
Please improve the endorsement system, make it worthwhile or just get rid of it completely. I’m so tired of repeatedly being told “you have gone from endorsement level 4 to 3” like I did something wrong, when all I did was lose one of the 50% of games I’m supposed to lose, there’s literally nothing I can do about it.
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Agreed. I was endorsement level 3 at one point but people just don’t endorse even if you win now.
I endorse the most helpful ones from my team every match. Only when it’s been full of feeders or other reportable activity do i not endorse.
The reward does feel rather lackluster in comparison to the lootboxes though, so maybe if they tweaked the rewards people would be likelier to use the system again? (Maybe some credits instead of a battlepass level?)
Likewise, but yeah, I don’t think it serves a real purpose these days.
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I do like the endorsement system, it’s nice to make someone aware they’ve played well by getting them but that’s all it pretty much does.
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Serves as much use as these Likes on the forums. 
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I mostly use the likes to signal that i agree with a post. No use writing the same thing over and over in a thread.
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yeah either remove it or reward good behaviour with some skins or currency, Now its like congrats you gained an endorsement level here is a measly 500 xp for your battlepass
I mosly reward to signal that a player played well, so I can stop writing over and over in the chat.
what if it got reworked into a bounty system - the more votes you get it puts you ona leaderboard and then players can hunt you down
This is parts of the many things they decided to over-simplify. Those smalls details like when you endorse teammates, if you did it 3 times it would make the overwatch theme melody with each clicks. Now you can only endorse 2 so you don’t even have that anymore.
I am surprised their reworked endorsement system hasn’t seen the light of day yet. The current one is utterly pointless (bar the 50xp)
Ah so, indorsement levle is a thing were every few days to a week you gain a certant amount of xp usually enoughf to gain 1.5 lvs at enforcement lv 3
But you are right playing with friends sucks for enforcement level
You cant endorce in any kind of 1v1
But in 3v3 is the best to do since boath your team mates have 2 edorcmemt points and 2 team mates
I get how seeing the level go up or down can hurt, but enforcement leve is a way of rewarding good sportsman ship
And if it hurts to see it go down
It’s probly working properly
(No ofence)
If you think I’m wrong ide love to heer feedback
I quite like the endorsement level. It’s a previous feature on OW that was great. Serves less purpose now but it’s still good to endorse the good players (ally/enemy).
Would be good if they used it to matchmake with like for like/as best to, endorsements - likely that would improve the comms/team work.
Knd rgds,
Bubs