Argentum Online

Argentum Online is an Argentinian MMORPG video game from 1999. It is available for Microsoft Windows and was developed by Pablo Márquez in the city of La Plata. It is considered the first MMORPG to be developed in Argentina. A sequel entitled Argentum 2 was already in development. The game has also lived outside the fictional universe, as one of the title's gamemasters stated: "The fact that the Argentum community has crossed the boundary of pure fiction is one of the most positive features of the game for most players. One day, the idea came up to get us all together over dinner." The developers and fans worked together to create variants and mods of the game. By 2001, four different versions had been created. The source code of the game was released in 2003 under the GNU GPL license and can be downloaded from SourceForge. La Nación described it as a "local pioneer" of the RPG genre. Página 12 said that the game was an "anarchic" game without an owner and instead a "game of the people".