My dad "obtained" it for me (just as he did many other games) when I was in my teenage years. I played the hell out of it and then went online with it. Playing on servers such as Asylum 51, Ioncross, and Asgard. Even during my tenure in the military I played when I had the time and even wrote stories here during my deployment to the desert.
It's been a staple of my gaming "diet" for a long time. True, I only came back to playing recently, but I'm glad I did. Freelancer is a timeless classic that has, as of yet, been replicated in an online format.
