I posted in their facebook site several times and sent an email, a lot of people did. Buying a game because "oh no, they might not bring them anymore" is sad, we are the consumers, they have to bring what we want.
not the other way around.
They don't have to do anything. If they don't feel a game will be profitable to release they don't have to release it just because the vocal minority want it. To be successful they need to bring games that people want sure, but skipping games in a series will lead to them feeling that future games won't sell and will give them less incentive to bring them over... it really goes both ways.
Customers needs to make sure to support games that they enjoy, and companies need to make sure that their releases make the customers happy. The customer doesn't have to buy releases they don't want though, and companies don't have to release games that only some customers want.
Supporting a series because it might not come anymore if you skip it, is not only not sad (yay double negatives
), it's simple economics. If there isn't good demand for a product, then the seller of said product will be less likely to continue to try to push that product. They will have two choices to either try to increase demand for the product, or move to a new product they feel will have more demand and sell better. In the video game industry it's far more often that a company will just move to a new product instead of trying to increase demand for an old product. Thus where the buying a game just to make sure the next game of the series comes in.
To be clear though I am not saying that you have to buy the game to make sure it continues to come out. When it comes down to it you should just buy what you think you will enjoy. But those who want to invest in a product line even though the current product isn't up the the quality the wanted aren't sad or wrong, they are simply investing in a company in hopes that their investment will provide them with a superior product they can enjoy down the line, something that there is absolutely nothing wrong with.
That all being said, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the way you are doing it either. While others are expending money to try to make sure that the series they enjoy continues to come out, you are expending time. You have taken the time to message the company to explain why you are skipping a release, which is great, it's far better than just skipping over a release and hoping the company figures out why you did instead of just assuming the series lost it's appeal. To be fair though, while you found people buying the game just in hopes to get the next one sad, others could easily find your actions sad. A video game company in general is just going to listen to money, going around bothering to message them (especially a company like koei who can't be bothered to announce they are releasing games) could be considered nothing more than a waste of time, something that you can't get more of, thus something even more valuable than money to some.
As I said though there is nothing wrong with doing this, if enough people do it the companies are sure to pay attention, my main point is labeling one method or another try to keep a series you enjoy coming with an inferior release happens as sad just seems wrong to me. The important thing is whether you expend time or money, that you are at least doing something to keep the games you enjoy coming, which to me could never be considered sad, it's admirable as it's more than your average gamer will do.
for the tl;dr: game publishers tend to listen to money first, make sure you support the series you like in some way whether it's with time or money.