I didn't know Hitech had done Air Warrior. And he was failing with Warbirds before Bill swooped in and saved him. Lol. It's like listening to Coach from Cheers.
Wild Bill's comments just shows he doesn't have a clue and why Warbirds is in the state it is in. If you look at Wild Bill's involvement in any studio he's been with, the studios of gone tit's up. Look at Microprose. According to Wild Bill, he was the reason why Microprose was so successful in the '80's and 'early 90's. Yet, the company started to go tit's up after Sid Meier left because of constant bad business decisions by Wild Bill like trying to break into the arcade market.
HiTech was a player in Air Warrior, he wasn't employed or ever worked for Kesmai, the creators and developers of Air Warrior. Interactive Creations (HiTech's company) wasn't failing when purchased by iEntertainment Network and didn't need saving. In reality, it was iEN that needed saving, which is why when Wild Bill was still at iEN, they purchased IC and Warbirds because Wild Bill was trying to sell iEN to a venture capitalist in either '98 or '99. iEN had stretched themselves too thin, at the time iEN had more distribution deals rather then game development and the games they did develop outside of Warbirds, weren't successful. Even after Wild Bill returned to iEN in the early 2000's, iEN continued to be plagued with bad business decisions which carried over to poor development decisions in Warbirds.
