Nowadays fighter games aren’t a particularly active genre of games… at least, they’re not really in the spotlight as much as they were in the heyday of Mortal Kombat and Tekken. So when an Italian studio who traded mainly in a sub-genre of indie horror films known as ‘splatter films’ announced in 2011 that they were planning to make a fighter called Death Cargo, the fans of those fighters got excited. Even more so when supposed beta footage was released showing that the studio’s previous works was going to have an effect on the game itself – it was going to be a gorefest.

Problems have only emerged recently when people who purchased the game found that despite receiving e-mails confirming their purchase, and downloads being available… they’re still not actually getting to play the game. What’s more, some of these people claim to have been banned from the forums set up for the players of Death Cargo when they tried to bring this up there.

The company in question is called Necrostorm, and the instructions they’ve been sending out for the download of the game are a little bit… odd. They claim that it’s all in the name of stopping piracy, and honestly they’re pretty standard up until the point it asks for you to e-mail back to THEM a code provided by the .exe file downloaded to which they will reply with an activation code. They will then provide a further code a few hours later for the ‘file creator’, although it could take up to five days for the ‘file creation’ process to be completed. Many of said that they still don’t have a working game even after that time has passed though, taking to other popular gaming forums to talk about their troubles.

Necrostorm have protested against people accusing them of running a scam, saying that anyone who was banned from the forum was so due to people making such accusations of their intents. And indeed they have been providing everything they should… except for an actual working game.