Do you feel like you got $8 worth of fun out of it?
O my god , alas, no. Those must have been the most frustrating 8 bucks (euros, actually) I ever spent, navigating between false promises (cycles, editor in december almost 100% sure, "Spring is coming"...), shallow features (spells = skills, drag and drop crafting, crates opening in lieu of proper gathering, failure or success system), bugs (countless), unbalances (game is unbalancable), to the point I can't go past Arhu anymore, because just the prospect of "navigating" through Cyseal bores the shit out of me.
Given the opportunity of having the game all this time or waiting until now with the sale price to play it for the first time, would you have really chosen the latter?
I wouldn't even have bought the game, but that's just me.
I would feel cheated for a bargain one or two months after release. So the frustration when the game is not even released yet ^^.
What I say is being a dedicated fanboy = having your ass fucked.
Next time I will do like others smarter than me do. Buy the game when it's worth 5 euros. I am sure devs really love these people, because if they sold ONLY 5 euros games, they would be dead by now. I will love to make this gift to Larian, anyways.