Well considering one was Free 2 Play and the other slugged for you for $100 for a Collectors Edition at launch and then continues to hit you for $4 every few months to give you "features" that were available as standard play options in COH....
Yea, we all had a commissar behind us, aiming a gun at the back of our heads, forcing us to buy DCE
If you were stupid and threw your money away at content you didn't even needed or expected the more you pay the stronger you will be, well, you've got what you deserved.
DCE is worth the money, question is, do you really needed 48$ worth of skins?
Blame no one but yourself if you got it without being huge games fanboy.