Played till mission 12 so far, and haven't had any problems with the microtransactions. Before starting the game, i played DMC4 again, the first version, not the special edition, and the rate that we get orbs and buy skills seems the same to me. There's really no reason to complain about the microtransactions here, sure they speed things up, but only if you want, outside of that, i don't feel they affected the game in any way, but sure, i would rather the game not have them to begin with, but, really, it makes no difference.