What world do you live in? It can be a lot worse for Europe. A lot.
A lot worse? The Atlus situation is far from ideal in Europe, but these days it usually takes around 3 to 6 months for an Atlus-published game to come over (most of the via NISA). If Apocalypse releases in September/October in the US, then a EU release in February 2017 would be par of the course. I wouldn't call that
a lot worse than November, but, hey, maybe my judgement is clouded by the utterly awful situation Europeans had a couple years ago. Compared to the past, we're living in heaven right now.
Atlus USA-published games of the last year with US and EU dates:
- Odin Sphere: June 7th (US), June 24th (EU)
- Stella Glow: Nov 17th 2015 (US), Mar 11th 2016 (EU)
- Legend of Legacy: Oct 13th 2015 (US), Feb 5th 2016 (EU)
- Etrian Untold 2: Aug 4th (US), Feb 12th (EU)
- Lost Dimension: July 28th (US), August 28th (EU)
- Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker: May 5th (US), Oct 30th (EU)
- Etrian Dungeon: Apr 7th (US), Sep 11th (EU)
Of course, there's SMTIV which took an eternity to get a European release, but that's the one big exception of the rule, which shouldn't be used as a generalization for future releases. Especially since signs point to there being a publishing deal that eventually fell through.
As a bonus: Persona release dates. I list them separately, though, since these days they get released much quicker in Europe, because - duh - it's Persona. These games sell pretty well. So, I wouldn't base an estimate on Apocalypse's release on those games, but it's possible.
- Persona Q: Nov 25th 2014 (US), Nov 28th 2014 (EU)
- Persona Dancing: Sep 29th 2015 (US), Nov 9th (EU)
- Persona Arena Ultimax: Sep 30th 2014 (US), Nov 21th 2014 (EU)
You may want to read Victor Ireland's post in the Summon Night 5 thread about the EU publishing red tape. It sounds pretty complicated.
Eh. NISA and Koei Tecmo show that it's easily possible to release JRPGs in Europe and the US at roughly the same time (as in: a couple days later). Atlus doesn't have a proper presence in Europe, though, and thus is dependent on whatever free spot other publishers (usually NISA) can/want to give them. Among other things.