Since a Freelancer, or even a NWN persistent server is player-controlled – and owned – there are no fees to play on them. These servers are often very limited in the number of players they can accommodate, but even a handful of players can sometimes make en experience more worthwhile than some MMORPGs I’ve played before. Also, since a game such as Freelancer was designed as a single-player game, solo play can certainly be enjoyed without too much hassle, even while friends fly the same universe on the same server.