It's been way too long but I'm pretty sure the general consensus back then was that the old achievements would be grandfathered in or at least displayed somewhere once the system was overhauled? People were setting up trading threads and everything in the Sales forum to help others get the achievements before they poofed.
I have no idea if this is something that the devs said would happen and ended up taking back now or if it was just a community assumption that was very wrong. But if it's the latter then yeah, I and everyone else who worked hard to finish these really just wasted a lot of time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Anniversary Dev Update
It's been way too long but I'm pretty sure the general consensus back then was that the old achievements would be grandfathered in or at least displayed somewhere once the system was overhauled? People were setting up trading threads and everything in the Sales forum to help others get the achievements before they poofed.
I have no idea if this is something that the devs said would happen and ended up taking back now or if it was just a community assumption that was very wrong. But if it's the latter then yeah, I and everyone else who worked hard to finish these really just wasted a lot of time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯