I paid $20 for the special edition (or whatever it is). I feel like I got $20 out of the alpha already, it's the best free game I ever played. That said, WTF did you do to the interface?
Some points:
> Why on earth do I need to have a destination selected before picking my race/class to go adventuring? Why can't I just select something to preview it?
> What is the purpose of your busy background illustration for the town? I figured you would be able to select certain buildings, or access them interactively. Instead you've got a series of ugly grey bars over top of it.
> Please god tell me there will be a way to skip the 20 minute tutorial! I know how to play the game, I didn't learn anything new. The game is not complicated and could have been explained in two dungeons rather than four.
> The goofy little signboards. Okay, I see the logic of having them during the tutorial. Then I started my first dungeon and found they were everywhere. All right, I figured at this point I would see each of the game tips and then they would be gone... WRONG! They repeat. And every time I hit one I get a popup I have to close out of (instead of having the option to not read them). Let me turn off hints altogether please, or just get rid of them. They don't add anything to the dungeon experience, trust me. Put them on the loading screen or something if you're attached to them.
> potions taking up an inventory slot: don't like it.
> let me preview what my conversion bonus is by hovering over the conversion symbol, without anything selected.
> having duplicate runes in dungeons: don't like it. I'd rather just get fewer runes.
> I can't view my spells/items and opponent at the same time. This is a royal pain in the a$$ and I very much hope you'll reconsider. Why would you do something like this?
> Last thing: my overall impression is that you tried to take a tight, exciting game and stretch the basic mechanics over more ground, things like having duplicate runes just make the game duller. I never played until the Aug 5 version, and I understand people complained before then about the difficulty. Well the new version certainly isn't difficult at the start! I thought the whole attraction of alpha DD was the difficulty?
Maybe I sound like a big whiner, but like I said, I got my money's worth in the alpha so I'm not sorry to support your work with my purchase. The alpha was fantastic. In fact, right now I feel like going back and playing it some more.