The difference is they probably had everything close to balanced by the time they released. SOE/LA has admitted they did not. So, they were fighting a losing battle with development after they had a completely unbalanced system in play(Oddly enough they 'had' almost fixed it with the CU... other development ensured they could not keep it though.). I think that was more to their point since it appears they didn't want to take the time to run their own 'private' Test Center to get things done.
/shrug
That's my take on it.