After the launch in November of 2020, the PlayStation 5 was given various new features to improve the overall user experience.

Among the new features was the Accolades feature, which allowed you to rate players you played with on PlayStation Network. Depending on your experience with each user, you could anonymously reward them with positive feedback in categories such as “helpful”.

To prevent abuse of the feature, only players who are not on your friends list on PlayStation Network can be rated. In addition, users can only be awarded Accolades once every twelve hours and once per multiplayer game. A feature that was apparently not as well received by the PS5 community as expected from the official side.

Feature will be disabled in the near future

This is according to a recent announcement from the Japanese branch of Sony Interactive Entertainment, in which the company points out that the feature tended to be little used by the community and will therefore be deactivated again. Sony Interactive Entertainment did not name a specific date, but announced that the Accolades feature will be removed “in the near future”.

Then it will no longer be possible to rate players accordingly. In addition, any Accolades you have earned in the past will probably be lost. The fact that the Accolades feature was not available in all games and had to be implemented separately by the developers or publishers might have proved to be a sticking point.

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In the first-party sector, the rating system was supported by “Ghost of Tsushima’s Legends”, “Sackboy: A Big Adventure” and “Destruction AllStars”, for example. Third-party games like “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War” or “Rainbow Six Siege” also made use of the Accolades feature in the past.