I think some of you are taking the term too literally. 'Achievements' are meant to function as a bucket list of things you can do, alternative to main activities. Implementing these in SWTOR might have been a good idea, considering the imbalance of sever populations. It would, at the very least, give people something to do while they wait for sever merges/transfers/whatever-they-plan-to-do. For those on servers that lack the population to raid, pvp without a long que, group for world bosses, or even put together 4 people to run a flashpoint, the only current alternatives are space missions and leveling alts. Point being, if BW is going to take its sweet time putting the MM back in MMORPG, ffs why not scatter some critters around the planets for people to kill and call it an 'achievement.'