Negotiations between heartharena.com&#x27;s owner and the two Hearthstone Arena experts he hired as contractors to tune the site&#x27;s algorithm have broken down, and the contractors are leaving with nothing.  This is very contentious because the algorithmists wanted equity (their original contract gave them 20% of profits), but the programmer refused, and now there&#x27;s a flame war on reddit about basically the &quot;worth&quot; of programmers vs non-programmers and their work.<p>Algorithmist&#x27;s post: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;np.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;hearthstone&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3sj3a7&#x2F;a_farewell_to_heartharena&#x2F;<p>Programmer&#x27;s reply: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;hearthstone&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3sjizj&#x2F;in_response_to_the_farewell_post&#x2F;
Heartharena.com Meltdown: Programmer/Owner vs. Algorithm Tuners