 According to Stellmach, the publisher demanded that the game be heavily redesigned "partway through" development, which exacerbated the team's existing problems with meeting deadlines.Sterrett believed that the game's schedule and funding did not receive the necessary adjustments to allow for this redesign.Together with "Flight Unlimited III"s commercial failure, the expenses of "Jane's Attack Squadron"s long development used up revenue from "", which had helped the company recover from the failure of "" and "British Open Championship Golf".