Well, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is now only barred from purchase in 117 countries according to Steam's backend, which is a start

Good news! Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' Steam backend nary longer lists it arsenic not being disposable for acquisition successful 132 countries. It's present lone listed it arsenic not being disposable for acquisition successful 117 countries. That's 15 full countries removed from the database of excluded nations, which looks similar it could beryllium linked successful immoderate mode to the request to person PSN relationship to entree definite bits of the game.

As spotted by Automaton, lone 117 countries are present connected the antecedently 132-long "this bundle tin NOT beryllium activated oregon purchased" present database outlined by Fighting Souls' SteamDB listing.

Cross-referencing the updated database beneath with the 1 I screenshotted the different week, the countries nary longer barred are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Pakistan, the Philippines, Serbia, and Uzbekistan. So, a fig of countries clustered astir Eastern Europe and Western Asia, positive immoderate outliers.

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun / SteamDB

The Vatican City State, tragically, is inactive barred. So, alteration connected the deficiency of Captain America vs Spiderman brawls successful The Pope's future. Poor guy.

Whether this is the commencement of a gradual rollback connected the portion banning, which galore had assumed to beryllium related to PlayStation Network relationship requirements, is anyone's conjecture close now. Marvel Tokon's looked to beryllium weird lawsuit compared to the likes of Helldivers 2 successful the past, with its Steam leafage lone mentioning a PSN relationship being required successful narration to playing online and accessing pre-order bonus items. Folks successful countries which PSN isn't supported successful person besides reported being capable to spot Tokon's Steam leafage adjacent if they can't bargain the game.

Hopefully much countries descent disconnected the banned database arsenic merchandise connected August 6th nears, particularly since Tokon's single-player communicative mode has been penned by idiosyncratic nary RPS scholar volition ever person heard of.