What's the furthest lengths you've gone to play one game?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

SvennoJ said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:
I paid about $1000 for a new computer just to play Ultima Online (plus the cost of the game and monthly subscription). I had tried it out at a friend's house, and the whole experience just blew me away. To give context, not only was this the first real MMO, but at the time I and most other people had very little experience with the Internet in general.

On top of that I mostly played the game at night, because my roommates were getting mad whenever my internet use would tie up the phone line during the day.

For me it was Everquest, I already mentioned paying $150 a month on phone bills for that, however I forgot to mention I got my own phone line just for playing Everquest. I was still living in student housing at the time with a shared phone. And yeah, pc wasn't cheap in those days and EQ was a pretty demanding game. I mostly played at night because of the cheaper phone rates. Dial up internet, 800 ms ping times, those were the days!

Yeah, I went to EQ shortly after it came out.  The funny thing about Ultima Online is that I stopped playing it a month or so after shelling out all of that money.  I loved the game, but the PVP was horribly broken.  

Looking back I am still impressed that we were able to play these massive games with just a 56k dialup (or worse) connection.