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

[SvennoJ]

spurgeonryan said:
I went to my friends house.

How far away did that friend live, kinda important for the thread :p

It wasn't for a game yet I flew to New York (was still living in Europe at the time) for the premiere of The Phantom Menace, what a mistake that was. Luckily NY was pretty cool, as well as The Matrix that was still playing. I've never really liked SW anymore afterwards.

The_Liquid_Laser said:

SvennoJ said:

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.

Lower standards I guess. I played on Bristlebane, or Bristlebroke, as it crashed multiple times a night for at least a month every time a new expansion came out. Link Death was by far the most common way to die, if not by the resulting trains when the rest of another party's members fled to zone out when their tank lost connection. It kept things interesting :) Raids on dial-up, how did that even work at all.