During E3, Microsoft revealed that they would be introducing a new "Reputation System" for Xbox Live users. It's meant to help reward friendly players while punishing cheaters and trolls.
Microsoft's Marc Whitten explained that it will help improve Xbox Live matchmaking.
"Your new Xbox Live Reputation plays a prominent and valuable role rewarding healthy participation while reducing troublemakers and cheaters," he wrote. "A unified system across Xbox Live and all of your games allows for you to have much more control over who you play with while giving you new and exciting ways to get even move involved in your community."
In a recent interview with OXM, Microsoft's Mike Lavin elaborated on the situation. He reported that "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."
In addition, your Reputation score will be visible on your profile, just like a Gamerscore. If you're a cheater, a troll, or just an all-around rude player, people will be able to see that reflected on your page.
Lavin adds that Microsoft will be supporting events that help players raise their Reputation score, while implementing systems that prevent users from wrongfully lower others'.
"It's very much over a period of time," Lavin stated. "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."
The Reputation system is expected to go live with the Xbox One's overhaul of the Live interface.
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