Just when you thought the respawn timer would give Sony a chance to recover, they've gone and triggered another wipe. According to Push Square, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls fans across a staggering 132 countries discovered this weekend that the game's PC release has been blocked - region-locked out of existence like a free-to-play title that never made it past the Asian server.
To put that number in perspective: 132 countries is not a rounding error. That's not a bug, that's not a typo - that's a deliberate, sweeping decision that has effectively benched a massive chunk of the global player base before they even got to hit the character select screen.
The fighting game community, already one of the most passionate and loudest corners of the gaming world, has been sounding off all weekend. Marvel Tokon was supposed to be a hype-filled arena fighter bringing together Marvel's roster in what promised to be a genuine contender for the genre - and now a huge portion of fans can't even get past the title screen on PC.
This comes at what Push Square describes as 'one disaster to another' for Sony, with the Japanese giant apparently treating this week like a speedrun of bad PR decisions. Blocking a game across more than half the world's nations on PC - a platform that thrives on global accessibility - feels less like a strategy and more like someone accidentally alt-F4'd the whole plan.
Sony has not exactly been rolling nat-20s on its public relations checks lately, and a move like this adds serious debuff stacks to an already wobbly week. The PC gaming audience, notorious for voting with their wallets and their Reddit threads, is unlikely to let this one slide quietly into the patch notes.
Whether Sony rolls out a fix, a region expansion, or an explanation remains to be seen. For now, players in those 132 countries are stuck on the loading screen while the rest of the world - or at least the lucky sliver of it - gets to actually play the game.
