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"Xbox One will implement a &amp;quot;robust&amp;quot; reputation system in order to encourage in-game communication. The new and improved reputation system will reward Xbox One users who consistently receive positive feedback, while grouping together gamers who harass other players.  In order to encourage more anonymous communication within games, Microsoft&amp;#039;s Mike Lavin told OXM that you need &amp;quot;a community of folks that aren&amp;#039;t screaming vulgarities every ten seconds&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;What we&amp;#039;re looking at doing is creating a very robust system around reputation and match-making,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;If people are in your friends list, we&amp;#039;re not touching that, we&amp;#039;re just making it easier for you to come together. It&amp;#039;s really the anonymous side of things where we&amp;#039;re making these investments.  &amp;quot;Ultimately if there&amp;#039;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.&amp;quot; Without going into detail, Lavin said that high-scoring users would be rewarded, before insisting that the new system would be hard to exploit. &amp;quot;There are industry best practices we&amp;#039;ve looked at, about giving kudos and props to people who behave well,&amp;quot; Lavin continued.   &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve learned from everything we&amp;#039;ve seen, and we&amp;#039;re trying to take it to the next level. So there&amp;#039;ll be very good things that happen to people that just play their games and are good participants.  &amp;quot;And you&amp;#039;ll start to see some effects if you continue to play bad or, or harass other people en masse. You&amp;#039;ll probably end up starting to play more with other people that are more similar to you. &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;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&amp;#039;s built fundamentally stops that. It&amp;#039;s very much over a period of time.&amp;quot; The Xbox One will launch in 21 countries in November, priced at $499 in North America and \u00A3429 in the UK. Gaming magazine Edge recently caused a stir by siding with PlayStation 4 over Xbox One with its latest cover. Watch the Xbox One announcement video below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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