PlayStation might have opted to stop putting their single player big hitters on PC going forwards, but they're still committed to porting their online games in the name of juicing player counts. All good, since they've stopped frustrating folks by insisting that PC players link up a PSN account. Ah, bollocks. Based on the fact Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' Steam backend lists it as not being available for purchase in 132 countries, Sony didn't learned their account linking lesson with Helldivers 2 after all.
As spotted by SteamDB scourers, the listings for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' various editions cite it as not being able to be "activated or purchased" in a lengthy list of countries. 132 in total, if you count three entries listed as unknown country codes. I can only assume the latter indicate it's barred in some places Steam or SteamDB haven't heard of or set up profiles for.
You can check out the full list below, which trots the globe to include the likes of Egypt, Latvia, Monaco, the Philippines, and the Vatican City State:
Yep, no Captain America vs Spiderman brawls for The Pope. Poor guy.
Given the similarity of the list to the roll calls of countries which ended up locked out of PlayStation games on PC by the ill-fated initial push to make PSN account linking mandatory, the immediate assumption online was that it's rearing its ugly head again with Marvel Tokon. Taking a glance at Fighting Souls' Steam page, there are a couple of mentions of a PSN account being required in the description, specifically in relation to playing online and accessing pre-order bonus items. So, it's not clear to my eye if you'll need PSN linked just to fire up the game and play the story mode, but any ventures into multiplayer will require one.
Given how things went with Helldivers 2, PlayStation might end up rolling this requirement back if folks kick up enough fuss prior to Tokon's release on August 6th. I'm sure everything'll go fine. It's not like they've picked a fight with fans of a genre that's all about relishing a scrap.