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

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.