While the Mac App Store allowed for game publishers to get instant distribution of their games, this tends to serve the “everyday” gamer, not your hardcore, graphic –intensive MMORPG gamer. Steam also allows gamers to save their progress on the cloud, called cloud saves, something even the Mac App Store has yet to adopt. With Steam, users only have to buy one license of a game across the Windows / OS X platform. Valve’s Steam has opened the door for digital distribution of commercial and indie games that often work on the Mac. Times have changed with the onset of Steam and the Mac App Store.
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