Ubi was smart to delay the North American release date. It's sounds like a stereotype, but N. American consumers are more likely to not only to avoid a product that gets bad reviews/word of mouth, but more likely to advertise this fact to anyone who will listen. If it was release in N.A. the same time it was released everywhere else all you would be able to see when Googleing "Cliffs of Dover" would be negative review, rants on blogs, and hundreds of youtube videos bashing the game.

I think they realized that the average European gamer is a little more tolerant of bugs and patches than us over here.