You can pirate nearly any game at the cost of loosing "official" multiplayer.This goes all the back to the first Starcraft or even earlier. But you can play on non-official (private) servers. I played pirated TF2 on a private server for a few weeks before my Orange Box arrived in the mail (yeah, old fashioned).
That's exactly what I mean - not having access to Steam servers is enough of a carrot that games like TF2 aren't heavily pirated. Some of my friends and I used to pirate a lot of games in high school; someone would find a copy and we all could play. Steam games, however, everyone bought and owned legally.
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You can pirate Steam games.
You can pirate nearly any game at the cost of loosing "official" multiplayer.This goes all the back to the first Starcraft or even earlier. But you can play on non-official (private) servers. I played pirated TF2 on a private server for a few weeks before my Orange Box arrived in the mail (yeah, old fashioned).
That's exactly what I mean - not having access to Steam servers is enough of a carrot that games like TF2 aren't heavily pirated. Some of my friends and I used to pirate a lot of games in high school; someone would find a copy and we all could play. Steam games, however, everyone bought and owned legally.