Published OS X games lower quality & performance than Editor Player?

I'm very confused about how my published games for Mac OSX are much worse quality than the same game on the same machine but played through the editors player...

Here are some screenshots to show the difference. I published at highest quality and tried both 64 bit and 32 bit, but that didn't make a difference.

I would have expected published games to perform much better than the in-editor player.

Published game screenshot link: https://app.box.com/s/vfplrmt070udbl7n4oqa4fyai447rxdz

Player game screenshot link: https://app.box.com/s/q90viva3hjg4erce6blgpq1xiwglzzej