It's a chance at redemption for any and all gamers who've been using their time online to troll others. It's been confirmed that Microsoft's reputation system for players on the Xbox 360 won't follow them once they migrate to the company's next-gen console, the Xbox One.
Microsoft revealed this new info during another of IGN's "Ask Me Anything" by Marc Whitten, the company's General Manager of Xbox Live. But just as gamers with a bad reputation are free to roam around on the Xbox One, gamers who earned a good rep start things out back at square one. As Whitten explains in his own words:
"We will not carry over any of the 360 reputation scores into the new Xbox One reputation system. The majority of members will start fresh at the 'Good' player level. We will be working with the Xbox Live enforcement team that has identified a small subset of members that have recently had enforcement actions taken against them and set those members reputation to an initial 'Needs Works' level. This will give those members a chance to prove they can participate on Live fairly, and are not automatically placed in the 'Avoid Me' classification where things like SmartMatch filtering will affect them."
Whitten also confirmed that you can be logged into your Xbox One and Xbox 360 simultaneously on the same gamertag and that - at the moment - digitally downloaded games cannot be pre-loaded before launch, but he added that this may change over time.
As Whitten noted, the new console's reputation system is an upgrade from the 360's current five star system.
Microsoft's senior product manager Mike Lavin's previously explained the console's system, saying, the system will make "it easier for [players] 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 insisted that Microsoft will make sure good things happen to people who just come over to play their titles. "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."
The Xbox One is currently slated to release this November.