According to Microsoft, some of the changes done to the Xbox Live Rep System include separating people based on how much "griefing" they do during multiplayer matches.
Also has some built-in security to ensure your own rep status won't be affected by griefers.
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n a recent interview with OXM, Microsoft’s senior product manager Mike Lavin explained that player ratings will determine who gets matched up with who in multiplayer. This system is designed to encourage players to join in with game chat and not hide away in parties to avoid the bigotry and racism that a small number of players like to spout.
The exact way that this system works wasn’t shared, but the gist of it is that players are rewarded or penalized based on their behavior in matches (via reports), and players with a similar reputation will be grouped together in match-making.
“There’s a lot of folks, a lot of our core consumers who just want to basically kick back and stay in touch with some of their old college buddies,” he said. “That’s cool, and Party Chat today and our Party system is leaps and bounds ahead of competitors, from the standpoint of just being able to isolate yourself and cross-game chat. But the problem we see is that this fragments voice communication within games. It’s very difficult, because if you’re isolated in Party Chat, you’re leaving everybody else behind.
“What we’re looking at doing is creating a very robust system around reputation and match-making. If people are in your friends list, we’re not touching that, we’re just making it easier for you to come together. It’s really the anonymous side of things where we’re making these investments. Ultimately if there’s a few per cent of our population that are causing the rest of the population to have a miserable time, we should be able to identify those folks,” he added.
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Steve Balmer was recently promoted as the interim boss for the Xbox Division and takes over all the duties Don Mattrick was responsible before he left.
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