Exactly.
FFXIV’s commendation system is entirely unnecessary and if it wasn’t somehow tied to something I wanted (mount, power etc.) I would never use it and in the event I did use it, aside from commending friends, I’d simply commend whoever did the most damage / was the least useless.
Report bad behaviour
Take a breath of fresh air when you get a dungeon group that aren’t entirely useless.
Well I can’t really speak on the FFIV system, I did however post a system I think would work for these purposes.
A system similar to Overwatch Endorsements? Yeah, it would be a nice addition to the game. It’s a good suggestion, Charizaard.
You have to make compromises to keep this system from being abuseable. Being able to get comm’s with people you were already partied with when entering would open the system for abuse big time. This system works well in ffxiv and has for 11 years without being abused. And yes people make friends a-plenty in that game still…
In ffxiv commendations do not matter to people when partying with other’s. It literally has zero impact on who parties with who. They are just a thing for people to see on another’s profile if they care to check… Granted you need commendations as part of becoming a Mentor (if you chose to, only the vast minority goes for this) but that’s as far as I can remember the only thing you’d want to collect them actively for. You get achievements for getting and giving comm’s and since it’s not abuseable such achievements are actually cool to have.
If the WoW player base takes this and fudge’s it up then that’s on this toxic playerbase and not the system and would show once and for all which big player mmorpg has the good people and which has the toxic ones.
Albeit I don’t think we need to speak about it at all. It’s been an open secret for years that WoW attracts the most toxic players en masse 
Wanna know why? Because games devs from games like gw2 and ffxiv actually give a shiz and actions follow swiftly and heavily.
I’m not sure if you noticed but the top of the browser says “blizzard” which means this isn’t FFXIV so you can’t really compare them as the two games are played totally different.
Playing for player progress & power =/= RPing in town with catgirls.
I’m not sure but you do realize that I used that unabuseable commendation system from ffxiv as an example that it can work? And can work well?
No they are not.
You have never played ffxiv before have you? But hey, if you are happy with the toxic garbage dump the WoW playerbase is you do you!
What purpose would this social credit score serve?
The higher the score the more reports it takes for bots/GM to take punitive action against me or what?
They are what are you on about? The final fantasy community is waaaayyy more casual oriented, like by miles.
You seem to not be, consistently.
So other players can see if you are a credible person when meeting you, will slowly push out the toxicc players as they wont be accepted into a group as likely, and even slowly pushed away.
Tell them!
Why do you need to tell Blizzard when you could tell the person who helped you to have a better experience in the game?
No, seriously, tell that person directly, that’s a much more effective (and direct) way of “showing some love”
Not as many people as you think are gung-ho on WoW endgame like mythic raiding. Also tell me you’ve never played ffxiv without directly stating so xD And unless you hit endgame and did more than just random queues how would you know this? Heresay? Please.
Who would actually be happy with such a toxic playerbase unless you are toxic yourself? There is always bad apples within any given community but WoW is the special case where you have to search for the good apples among all the rotten ones.
While this of course is an option, not everyone wants to directly engage with another player and perhaps get involved in a conversation when they have other things to do. So most people just don’t say anything. A commendation system would alleviate that, let the person know they did good with a simple click without having to further engage. And yes this is an mmorpg but it doesn’t mean everyone has to directly engage with everyone all the time.
I have, now what? State arguments instead of empty statements with no proof or ground for them to stand on. FFXIV has more casual content like jobs, or the ability to level up all classes with one char or decorate or actually gamble,etc. that the players actively engage with, not to say you can’t play them similarly, they are both mmo’s, but to say that they don’t have large differences when it comes to the average experience when playing is strange to say the least.
If I’m being real, I’ve been casually looking into the forums today while on my downtime at work. And the only time I’ve come across active toxicity is you. Cause you seem to not understand that when referring to people as toxic all it will get you is toxicity back.
You have given no proof either.
How does that make ffxiv more casual? You still have to level each job, you still have to gear each job, you still have to job quests with each job. The only thing it makes easier, is that you do not need to relog.
Gamble?
All you are proving is the fact that ffxiv offers more than just raiding, m+ and transmog runs in that regard. WoW is lacking casual content. That however does not mean FFXIV is overall casual. Far from it.
Why, because I have an opinion that you do not share? I am neither insulting nor otherwise breaking the EULA/TOS. I am not needlessly whining nor straight up bashing you.
But sure, -I- am the toxic one!
Ignored.
I agressively dislike the idea of a commendation system - mostly because it will inevitably devolve into the kind of popularity contest where the higher your score the better your rewards.
If you think someone did a good job and you want them to know there are other ways to tell them than a direct message.
You can send them an ingame mail, you can emote cheering at them, you can say “nice job people” in /say before you leave the group. You don’t have to start something that needs to be a conversation - but the game doesn’t need a button you can press to say “X did a good job” when you can easily tell X they did a good job
Thank you for sharing your opinion. We’ll agree to disagree then what the game needs and what it doesn’t.
You aren’t very smart, are you? Fishy explained multiple times how in FFXIV the system is not abusable, they would just have to copy it.
Oh noes this random guy is carrying me the whole dungeon and now I would have the choice to thank him and let him know he did well with just 2 clicks after doing 3 times my DPS and making the dungeon twice as fast? HOW DARES HE !!! 
Listen - I know you are kind of living under the rock…
Are you aware of “win trading”?
Now this could be applied to commendation trading - find bracket/dungeon with low participation and queue /cancel/join until you get desired people in.
I heard people even win trade in solo shuffle…
You must be living under a rock if you think there are few enough people in the game doing the latest dungeon content that this would actually be possible to do more than once in a blue moon.
I would really like the commendation system in game. It would actually reward people for behaving.
Back when I played FF14, even as a DPS I would get commendations. It was a nice reward for being a team player.
More proof that the WoW playerbase is utter garbage.
assuming you can’t get commendation on lower bracket dungeons? those that you have to wait forever to get into? Like old expac heroic dungeons or so?
you are delusional and very narrow minded.