The more prestige the better the ranking matches etc, and with competitions being played with prizes to be won, its not a case of everyone in it, it is the top players who do get the crack at the whip. Some tournaments have costs to register to deter this in the past.
This argument makes no sense. Your Starcraft 2 cheevos score has NOTHING to do with online matchups. I've got about 2300 points, and I routinely play people with less than 500. Sometimes I play people with 4000. Some of them beat me. I beat some of them.
On top of that, Blizzard's placement matches system ensures that you play people with a similar skill level as yourself, not the person with the nearest cheevo score.
Also, you're taking the discussion into the tourney realm, which has no bearing on this issue... we're talking about single-[player cheating and bans, and tournies are, by definition, all multiplayer.
I used tournaments as an example and of course it has bearing, as it is effectively the better players, in terms of standings in one game but in others can simply just be achievements gained.
Uncharted 2 has the latter system in place.
You also have to remember SC2 is new, I think Blizzard are looking forward to future improvements or implementation of newer things to SC2, and in a way protecting the MP side of things.
I don't work for them, I am only giving my point of view.
Oops, wrong again DAB. I'm beginning to wonder if you actually have any idea what you are talking about or if you just want to make up arguments on Blizzard's behalf.
Hmmm I see nobody actually fully read what I said.
And Chris already pointing fingers, remember the last time you did that and actually accused me of stealing your trainers. Wasn't a good day for you then. So believe me when I say, No I am not making excuses for anyone, merely giving my view on what was said in the article about this.
Blizzard has been rumoured to change things in the MP side of SC2, what with all the carry on at the moment with the fore-mentioned companies.
I was one to say I doubt Blizz would ban anyone for SP use, but even back then I didn't know as much as I do now about possible plans, if I did I would have probably give some sort of warnings to others to be careful.
But at the end of the day, it is their system in place to protect as they see fit, a bit nasty of them but their software unfortunately.
And Chris already pointing fingers, remember the last time you did that and actually accused me of stealing your trainers. Wasn't a good day for you then.
That's a little harsh, don't you think? And I think the point here is the ethics behind it, forget their right to ban who they want, forget their reasons, it just isn't ethical to ban SP cheaters and lump us all together with the MP cheaters.