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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9708532" data-attributes="member: 7635">Sorta. The Deck itself has print issues and it was the premiere part of the package, not the book itself. So while the game rules book (the one with monsters, maps and options) was released early, the main attraction (the cards and the lorebook attached to them) were still only available in paper. If all you wanted was the rulebook (and didn't care about the cards or lore) you were always better off buying the Beyond version due to the price difference. If you wanted the cards and total package, you needed to wait to buy you paper version regardless. Forge of the Artificer isn't the same kind of product. The selling point is the lore so a Beyond sale potentially cannibalizes a book sale. There is no advantage to buying one over the other in terms of material. So WotC was confident that people who were going to buy just the rules were going to opt for the digital and those who wanted the cards were going to buy the paper version, but it knows that people who may have bought the paper version if FotA might buy the digital now that it had a 5 month exclusivity window. That would have been a bad look. I think the better example might be how Monsters of the Multiverse was a box set exclusive for several months before the standalone was released. Even that is not a perfect parallel, but it's closer.</blockquote>