Also the fact that in previous interviews he has said “if you follow our pattern you know what to expect”. Death threats aside he brought some of the hate on himself.

Don't think he brought on any deserved hate, this game is just going to take longer. In the end that's a very good thing.

He did bring on the backlash. He kept drawing attention to the pattern when asked if an MK 11 announcement was coming. He kept saying "Look at this pattern that we've been following." He brought attention to it and made it seem like the announcement was imminent. He should have kept his mouth shut and not mentioned the pattern if he wasn't ready to announce it. He's old enough to know better at this stage of his life.

People are gonna think what they want, but every time he’s mentioned a “pattern” it was always in reference to WHAT game they were working on next, NOT when they were going to announce the game. We as fans connected those dots ourselves and, this time, we were wrong.

I’ve often wondered why Boon doesn’t do damage control on stuff like this, but honestly, why would he? Sure he could say “we’re not announcing anything at e3”. Or he could just let us hype the game up to the moon and WB not have to pay a dime on marketing till the time is right. People are talking about his game. That’s what he cares about and no doubt, he and NRS use this as leverage to get the resources they need to make their next game great. The man, for better or worse, knows how to play the game.

Announcing the games at E3 or just before it were part of his "pattern" that he kept drawing attention to. So you can see why fans were expecting an announcement and why they're angry. Boon earns alot of the backlash he gets.

The only pattern Mr. Boon alluded to was what game NRS is working on, which is obviously MK11. The official announcement date of when they unveil the game was just assumed by fans to be around E3 again. No hate warranted, he didn't mislead anyone or say anything untrue. If people are going to hate on Ed for that, then there's a problem with the person(s) themselves and their sense of entitlement.

It's just he should have said that we wouldn't get anything at E3. You know some people went there for MK only. They ain't stupid, they just love your game, have some respect for them.