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Xbox One reputation notifications will punish cheaters and jerks

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:46PM EST
Xbox One Reputation Notifications

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Tired of foul language, idling players and trolls in your online Xbox One games? Starting this month, you can finally do something about it. Xbox Live’s Michael Dunn has taken to the Xbox Wire to announce reputation notifications for the new console, warning players as their reputation begins to drop. In the current system, a green reputation means “Good,” yellow means “needs work” and red means “avoid me.”

Along with the notifications, Microsoft is also planning to take away privileges from players who can’t get their act together. If you drop into red territory, you could “have reduced matchmaking pairings and may be unable to use certain privileges such as Twitch broadcasting.”

You won’t have to worry about false reports or griefing: the system will adjust to ensure good players aren’t put at risk of losing anything. As for the cheaters, jerks and nimrods that won’t stop running in circles during Titanfall matches while spouting profanity — watch out. Reputation warnings are coming your way.

Jacob Siegal
Jacob Siegal Associate Editor

Jacob Siegal is Associate Editor at BGR, having joined the news team in 2013. He has over a decade of professional writing and editing experience, and helps to lead our technology and entertainment product launch and movie release coverage.