[luckystrike]

Well, right. Same for Starcraft 2. You switch on an official in-game cheat, you disable achievements for that level and can fuck around to your hearts content.

These guys were specifically using 3rd party trainers and hacks (none of which do anything that the official cheats couldn't) which bypassed the achievement disabling, most likely for the express purpose of racking up achievement score and unlocking portraits and titles, or at the very least with that being an unintended benefit.

Also, if these dudes were totally set on using these trainers for whatever reason, they could have easily done so without reprimand while playing the single-player game offline, which disables achievements anyways.

Obviously achievement score and meta-game trophies are super dumb, but if a company is going to put them in the game, they are sort of required to defend their worth.