Marvel Tokon's PC Launch Drives Maximilian Dood to Uninstall on Stream

A Rough Arrival on PC

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls had exactly the kind of launch weekend that publishers have nightmares about. The 4v4 superhero tag fighter from Arc System Works and Sony Interactive Entertainment hit PC and PlayStation 5 on August 6, and while the PS5 version appears to be running cleanly, the PC port has been a different story entirely. Players flooded the game’s Steam page with complaints, and by the time the dust settled after launch weekend, the all-languages rating had dropped to 41% positive, with English-language reviews sitting at a “Mostly Negative” 39%, according to IGN.

That is a brutal number for a brand-new release. But the Steam rating was only part of the story.

Maximilian Dood Calls It Quits on the Port

Maximilian Christiansen, better known to the fighting game community as Maximilian Dood, is about as credible a voice as the FGC has when it comes to this genre. He streams fighting games constantly, his community is deeply invested in the space, and his opinion carries real weight. So when he titled a stream “Last day with PC version, sheesh” on August 7 and then actually uninstalled the game on camera, people noticed.

“This is bad, chat. I don’t think I can play this anymore,” he said during the stream, as reported by IGN. “It’s making me like the game significantly less. The game is un-fun when we have to deal with all this. It’s un-fun. It’s fun coming up with solutions and stuff like that to issues, to combat, but you can’t do anything. You just have to watch it stutter like crazy.”

He did not leave it at a complaint. He navigated to his Steam library on stream and uninstalled the game, telling his audience he had come to the conclusion he had to “abandon the PC version.” His next stream, he said, would be exclusively on PS5.

There is a practical wrinkle to that plan, and it is an annoying one. Marvel Tokon does not offer cross-progression between platforms, which means Maximilian Dood would have to unlock everything he earned on PC all over again. He acknowledged that frustration directly: “I’ll have to just unlock everything all over again. There’s no cross-progression, so I’ll have to figure that out, but the PC version is too frustrating.”

The PS5 Version Tells a Different Story

The contrast between the two versions is stark. After switching over, Maximilian Dood hosted a follow-up stream titled “PS5 version works, thank god” and later posted on X/Twitter, according to IGN: “Tried Tokon on PS5 against only PS5 players and had a wonderful time. Even with 3 bar, 100+ ms, matches were smooth.”

That kind of firsthand comparison does not reflect well on the state of the PC port. A fighting game lives and dies on the responsiveness of its netcode and the stability of its performance. When a creator who wants to like your game is telling his audience the experience is actively making him enjoy it less, that is a meaningful signal about the severity of what players are dealing with.

Arc System Works said it would investigate the issues following the launch complaints, but no meaningful fixes arrived before the weekend ended. The studio has a strong reputation for quality fighting game releases, which makes the gap between the PS5 and PC versions here feel particularly surprising.

The path forward for Marvel Tokon on PC is unclear. Arc System Works will need to deliver substantive patches to win back the players who either refunded or set the game aside out of frustration. And with no cross-progression in place, even players who genuinely enjoy the game on PS5 are looking at starting over if they eventually return to the PC version. That is a real cost the developers will need to account for when thinking about how to rebuild goodwill with a community that showed up on day one and got burned for it.