The programmer for HearthArena's reply to ADWCTA

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I hope people realize that there are always two stories. It's unbelievable and feels incredibly bad how ADWCTA tries to get the public vote by giving such a one-sided without showing any sort of respect, portraying me has a very bad person.

In the past months we have negotiated on a new agreement to continue collaboration in the years to come. Both parties brought proposals to the table, we both tried everything to make this work. For the avoidance of doubt, in no way was ADWCTA thrown out of the project, he was given a very reasonable offer even after he terminated his own existing contract while I was doing all the efforts of building and releasing the overlay app.

In Q4 2014 I contacted ADWCTA with a working product which had been worked on for 1 1/2 years on almost full-time level. The product at that point was tested to be 3-5 picks off in comparison to expert Hearthstone Arena at the time. I still thought it would be good to see how a person as ADWCTA could make the algorithm better.

We agreed that he could work as an adviser to make the algorithm better and by doing so we could both grow his stream. HearthArena did everything in its power to give ADWCTA the opportunity to make a name for himself and portray him as "the arena expert". His stream grew from 50-100 viewers to a couple thousands because of the opportunities that HearthArena gave him and because I continued to invest time in features (like the bubbles) that could promote him.

The work that has been put into the project by me and ADWCTA is still in a 1:6 ratio. ADWCTA has a full-time job, doing this as in his free time outside of the streaming and playing Hearthstone. I have been taking all the risks in the past years dedicating my life, working 60 hours a week, to make HearthArena a thing without any sort of security or salary.

It's very very sad that when two people don't come to a mutual agreement, very false claims of profits and a witch hunt has to be started against the true founder and motor behind HearthArena.

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