I didn't notice privateer in the character creater... but i played back in the day, i as well googled earth and beyond just because and was lead here, tried to install about a month or two ago and had severe issues, got frustrated, today I came back as I had a dream about what i could do to make it work, and it did, so stoked, these guys who did this are really awesome, told my friend about it, hopefully he likes it because this game is my first MMO as well and will probably be my favorite game for a long time, I've been gaming since the late 80s and this game is my favorite.