Originally Posted by
Morte
I think the only reason, despite what others have said here, is purely (and simply) a time zone thing. That's it....often people want things to be more than what they are so there's some drama or controversy to stir up but its almost assuredly simply because of time zone.
And remember while its a game played the whole world yes...but like it or not its an "American" based game so of course the "home country" of the company that makes it is going to likely get the updates first.
Same thing happened with Aion -- Korea got all the release and changes before the US did.