14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has shared a few more details about the new reputation system for the Xbox Live online service that will be rolled out alongside the Xbox One this year, confirming that it can't be cheated or exploited by users.
The Xbox Live online community isn't exactly the friendliest, especially when talking about players of titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, for example.
In order to improve the online multiplayer experience, Microsoft is going to debut alongside the Xbox One this November a special Reputation system for the Xbox Live online service.
After sharing a few details earlier this year, Microsoft's Senior Product Manager Mike Lavin talked about the system with OXM.
"What we're looking at doing is creating a very robust system around reputation and match-making," he said.
"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."
Lavin also emphasized the steps that will be taken to encourage good behavior and discourage bad one that negatively impacts other Xbox One owners.
"There are industry best practices we've looked at, about giving kudos and props to people who behave well. We've learned from everything we've seen, and we're trying to take it to the next level. So there'll be very good things that happen to people that just play their games and are good participants."
"And you'll start to see some effects if you continue to play bad or, or harass other people en masse. You'll probably end up starting to play more with other people that are more similar to you."
What's more, the Reputation system can't be exploited by a number of users who all start submitting negative feedback about another player, as Microsoft looks across games and activities before deciding on a punishment.
"Let's just be clear, there is no way at all that a conglomerate of people can conspire to sink your Reputation on the system. The way that it's built fundamentally stops that. It's very much over a period of time," he added.
"If we see consistently that people, for instance, don't like playing with you, that you're consistently blocked, that you're the subject of enforcement actions because you're sending naked pictures of yourself to people that don't want naked pictures of you... Blatant things like that have the ability to quickly reduce your Reputation score."
Potential Xbox one owners should expect to hear more about the Xbox One's Reputation system as we get closer to the console's release in November.