Virtual Karting Developer Isn’t Happy With OTM

The dveloper of Virtual Karting, Fabio Bizzetti, has released a letter accusing the publisher of some shady practices, including failure to deliver on promises and not paying royalties. Whether any of this is true or not, here is the full text of the letter:

Dear Amiga magazines and Amiga games buyers, My name is Fabio Bizzetti, I am the author of the game “Virtual Karting” published in the October 1995 by OTM Ltd. The reason why I am writing this letter is to, finally, let everyone know the real nature of OTM Ltd and their violations to the contract they made with me for the publication of my product, violations finalized to defrauding me of my last royalty payments, once they understood I was not going to let them publish any of my future products.

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All began when I signed the contract with OTM Ltd for the pubblication of my program “Virtual Karting”, after having been convinced by their many promises about good marketing strategies and so on.

Besides all their bad management, that has meant extremely high costs for production (by the way: my request to check a copy of the invoices has been refused), they also always made every kind of resistance and delay in providing the quarter author reports and royalties payment, that I got only making promises that I would have let them publish my future games. Last delay has been 2 months long, violating the contract they made and we both signed that considered as maximum delay 14 days (with pre-announce, that by the way has never been made).

In all these months I’ve got thousands promises, “explanations”, excuses, while their real intention was to rip me off.

Because of their initial refuse to show me the proofs of their honesty, and the consequent my request to remove from their publishing plans list all my products, they didn’t pay me all the outstanding payments and neither provided the author reports, violating openly the contract we signed.

Now my intention is to let everyone publically know how criminal OTM Ltd and the person of Steven Rennocks are, and also to get all my own money in every legal possible way. I won’t let them rip me off nor rip others off anymore.

The only deeply friendly advice I can give to Trevor Mensah and all the other developers that are going to trust OTM is to not trust any of their saintly words and to get the game published by someone else while they are still in time, changing the name/logo of the game or waiting that the law punishes OTM Ltd for the facts concerning the violations of “Virtual Karting” contract. Steve Rennocks and OTM Ltd are certainly able to enchant people with promises, but they remain simple liar dishonest bastards.

I will provide photocopies of the contract and of all the author reports and cheques made until now, including the last author report that they provided some months ago where they openly contraddict themselves about the payment to make and payment done. The last payment and author report has not been made, violating the contract once more. All my trials to get in touch with them have been useless, they dont want to pay what the contract we both signed and the law says they have to pay; my own money coming from my own work.

Please contact me for further informations, to get the documents, and/or for advice about how to proceed legally against OTM.

Best Regards,

A game developer defrauded by OTM Ltd,
Fabio Bizzetti