ARGO Online is one of Korean developer, Mgame's latest MMORPG. The game will be brought to Europe and North America in early 2011 by burda:ic, through its MMO portal, alaplaya. Belonging to the rare Steampunk genre, the game aims to merge both technology and magic into the game and create a conflict between 2 races with superior knowledge of either: the technologically advanced Noblian race and magic wielding Floresslah.
Players will get a chance to play as either of the races and join the fight for the planet's most valuable resource for survival: Earthdium. In this interview, we will be taking a more in-depth look into the game and find out how does ARGO exactly fit into the current competitive MMORPG market.
OnRPG: Hello, this is Fo Po (cinderboy), journalist from OnRPG. Can you please introduce yourself to the readers?
Hi Fo Po. My name is Hendrik Loga, Product Manager @ alaplaya. I'm in charge of S4 League and LOCO as well. Guess some of you already know these games^^. Today, I'm going to introduce our latest game ARGO to you and answer some interesting questions to give you and the OnRPG community a deeper look into an Online RPG with an absolutely interesting story in a very unique Steampunk and Fantasy remix.
OnRPG: Amongst the many Free to Play MMORPGs available in the Asian market, why the decision to choose Mgame's ARGO?
There are a lot of MMORPGs around spamming the market with a low quality and less affectionate developments. It is not easy for a good game to come up. Just, if you provide something that is in contrast to these mass products. A high quality standard and hybrid game concepts are the key of the next generation online RPGs. ARGO Gold combines RPG with TPS and RTS into one very unique high quality game with the setting of a post apocalyptic world. But not only the combinations of different game genres are important to make a game interesting and unique, it is the combination of various styles as well. ARGO is a post-apocalyptic MMORPG which brings Fantasy and Steampunk together.
OnRPG: You did not alter the original name, ARGO. Can you tell us what does ARGO actually stands for?
The story of ARGO Gold says that during the last World War only a selection of scholars, scientists and industrials survived in subterranean shelters. When they started their journey below the surface, they traveled in a ship called "ARGO". It is not a specific shortcut or something like that.
