I was always under the impression that, the reason we don't have a NA developer team is because then we would have two versions of the same game. And thats one thing Ncsoft K does not want.
They don't have "two different versions" per se. They probably just don't have the servers that run it, so its just a simple disabling of the forum component thats needed, not gameplay changes.
So we get thier version...they have their cleints how far before us and yet we had the spoil crash bug for 1-2 weeks? They have 30 minute buff rounds and we dont why? The auto-ss woulden't work properly for how long? I don't think they get thier bug fixes from errors that we get and then have to be fixed. Doesnt' seem like we get the most updated version, or even an updated one past the PTS here.