[rozab]

The problem is, they are planning to hand their toxic playerbase a tool which will let them inflict actual consequences on another player, where previously they could just say mean words and get muted.

I guarantee less skilled players will have dirt-low ratings.

[ianferrel]

Are they? The page says "The reputation system tracks a variety of in-game actions that can be positive or negative, assigns a score to them, and applies effects to players' accounts".

It's not obvious to me that this involves discretionary player input at all. Like, you don't need player input to look for insults in chat, or quitting in the middle of a match, or firing on one's own team.

[raspyberr]

>The reputation system tracks a variety of in-game actions that can be positive or negative

Hope you don't do anything creative or interesting that could be misinterpreted as your not playing to win. Hope you don't go off meta too much. There is no chance they could create a system that will account for player creativity without punishing particularly creative players for it.

[ianferrel]

I think those are potentially legitimate issues, but they're very different than "bad gamer actors will use this to penalize those they don't like."

I don't play this game or know how they handle this, but in lots of games there are different player pools with different levels of competition. If you want to explore the engine and be creative, good on you, but you also should not be teamed up with people who are looking for a hardcore competitive gaming experience.

That also seems like a mostly orthogonal problem to encouraging good behavior like being nice and trying to win and discouraging antisocial behavior like insulting your fellow players or shooting your own teammates to be a troll.

[googlryas]

How can people game this system, if it is the game capturing the metrics? This isn't users up or down voting other players

[millzlane]

Or the reporting tool could do something like submit replays and recordings to people who are doling out the ratings. Fake reports may also lower your rating. Who knows how it works but it's better than doing nothing.