@Cabowse
Sounds great and much appreciated for looking into!
Changing attitudes of human decency towards eachother would be leap forward.
Yes endorsement. I can imagine this would be VERY complicated than simply -1 and +5 kudos and match making players in bands of 100-150, 150-200 total reputation points etc as an example.
Overwatch rewards endorsements with lootboxes. But for Apex I hope it can work its way into match making as reward to be paired with good sportsmanship players instead. The idea is to make in game experience the motivation rather than reward outside of it.
Endorsement implies you cannot give negative feedback? Hope you still would be able to. See below 1.
Factors of consideration below. The "How" is up to EA/Respawn on what is best:
1. Should endorsement level be reset per season. Endorsement does show your success in terms of good sportsmanship. But without letting someone give you bad feedback you not held accountable for those few occasions you were toxic, even if majority of time you were decent.
I am thinking a green positive level and red negative level as separate trackers. You want people to be play nice consistently, not just most of the time to over compensate for being unpleasant sometimes.
Just because you've been nice for 100 games, got no excuse being unpleasant for 1 game and believe it is OK. Well someimes you've done nothing wrong and you still get negative point, well that's collateral damage.
2. How to stop friends simply spam endorsing eachother to pad out reputation. Well if they do that then all premades will certainly be stuck together if worked into match making. Maybe set limitations.
3. What if premades actually want a lower reputation, means they'll be up against opponents who are bad sports to their team mates. Puts them at advantage against less organised squads.
So reverse boosting reputation :D
4. The points 2 and 3 are interesting as even if abused then premades are just forcing themselves to play with eachother more anyway. But yes have to be cynical about these things to prepare for it. Just like SBMM, people want to find ways around it.
5. Brand new players and smurf accounts - Do you want to give benefit of doubt and they start at high reputation. Low reputation then they'll be put with bad sports already.
Yes putting bad sports together in match making is going to reduce playerbase overall with lobbies of raging players paired with another raging player. They will just quit or create another account all the time.
But I believe in time the game can attract positive type of players as a foundation whom will praise the game and achieve greater growth in numbers.
