[STEAM] Valve's Steam Deck rating system under fire again after Spider-Man 2 change

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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is now Verified on Steam Deck following the release of PC patch three. The announcement was made on X (formerly

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) and it's causing controversy as Deck owners report that performance hasn't improved enough to earn a Verified rating, and I have to agree.

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don't start out perfect, and in the case of

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, all it took was a few performance and optimization patches for verification to be secured. The problem, however, is that the game still doesn't run all that well on the default settings, and while Valve has never disclosed what the performance target is for verification, Spider-Man 2 still barely achieves a stable 30fps, raising questions about why it's been given the green tick for

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