MaximilianDood Uninstalls Marvel Tokon PC Port Live on Stream

A Public Uninstall That Stings

Fighting game community fixture MaximilianDood has uninstalled the PC version of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls live on stream, and the clip is spreading fast. As reported by Push Square, Max remained relatively composed throughout the whole thing, which almost made it worse. No screaming, no chair-flipping. Just a measured, disappointed man explaining why stuttering frame rates were making him not want to get better at a game he otherwise likes.

“This is bad, chat. I don’t think I can play this anymore,” he said, according to Push Square. “It’s making me like the game significantly less. The game’s just unfun when we have to deal with all this. It’s fun coming up with solutions to issues in combat, but you just can’t do anything. You just have to watch it stutter like crazy. It’s literally Dragon Ball PTSD all over again. It’s really sh*t.”

That Dragon Ball reference lands hard for anyone who follows the FGC. Max told his audience he’ll be playing the PS5 version exclusively going forward. The platform, in his words, is the destination. The port is the problem.

Mixed Signals From Steam

The numbers back up the frustration. According to Push Square, the PC version launched to around 25,000 concurrent players on Steam, which was already an unremarkable figure for a heavily anticipated superhero brawler from Sony. Since launch on Thursday, those peaks have dropped further as word about the port’s condition has spread. The game currently carries a Mixed rating on Steam.

Arc System Works, the developer, has acknowledged the situation and said it is actively investigating the reported issues, per Push Square. Whether that translates to a timely fix remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, at least one fighting game tournament in the US has already announced it will run its competition exclusively on PS5 hardware because of the PC problems. That kind of competitive-scene signal matters. Tournaments drive visibility, and visibility drives playerbase, and playerbase is the entire point of a live service title.

A Live Service Can’t Afford a Fractured Player Pool

That last part is where this really hurts. Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls launched as a live service game, which means Sony needed healthy, sustained numbers across both platforms to justify its ongoing investment. Instead, as Push Square noted, PS5 players are being encouraged to disable crossplay to avoid being dragged into laggy matches caused by struggling PC clients, while PC players are abandoning the game outright.

The result is a playerbase that has effectively split itself in two, and one half is shrinking. For a genre that lives and dies on matchmaking speed and opponent availability, that fragmentation is a genuine threat to the game’s long-term health.

Push Square’s reviewer noted that on PS5, the game is well-optimized and runs without issues. The console version appears to be exactly what Sony hoped Marvel Tokon would be. The PC release is a different story entirely, and the contrast has made the situation feel even more avoidable.

First Impressions and What Comes Next

Fighting games have a particularly unforgiving relationship with first impressions. Players who bounce off a title in its first week rarely return, even after patches fix the underlying problems. The competitive community moves on, the casual audience follows, and a game that might have thrived finds itself chasing a player count it lost in the opening days.

Sony has now had multiple high-profile PC ports stumble out of the gate. Whether Arc System Works can deliver a fast enough fix to stop the bleeding, and whether the FGC gives Marvel Tokon a second look on PC when they do, are the questions hanging over this one now. Max says he’ll keep playing on PS5. The question is how many others make the same calculation, and how many just walk away.