Did you buy the MSX2 English Golvellius from WOOMB?

Until then, let's asume the facts: it is a lame Windows game that does not take advantage of PC hardware.
I have to agree. Its a quite crappy Windows game actually. It looks 20 years old or so. If it would have been available on an older system such as MSX (like the original version) I would be quite impressed but as it is I rather spend my money on a more modern looking PC game.

* EDIT * The games are worth paying for especially for those who played the originals and didn't understand the language.

So, as soon as an MSX game is not playable on an MSX, it's not an MSX game, right?
I think this is what some people are trying to say and I somewhat agree. But it really doesn't mean that the games aren't worth buying. I should update my last post on that.
And I definately don't think its justified to 'crack' the WOOMB games to make them playable on a real MSX or on other emus. Hopefully they will be released in another form but that's all up to Bazix. But in the current form you'll get these reactions and its really a matter of definitions. I tend to lean towards the people that don't think its an MSX game. Its really a game taken from the MSX system, modified a bit and made into a PC version.

and decrypting is a bit more difficult
...and potentially illegal

They're not windows games, because they are created as MSX games, and don't aim to follow video/sound possiblities available on PC.. simple as that. They're MSX 'content' running in an emulator. MSX content here means: using Z80 or R800 instructions, using a TMS or VDP videochip, using PSG, SCC, MSX-Audio or MSX-Music. No matter how unplayable things are on a real MSX (in this case only because of a protection mechanism, which is here because people *are* evil enough to put it "online" ) I'd *never* call them Windows games.

I actually don't think ppl care one hoot about the whole matter, the real reasons of this debate are more based on:
- emulator makers feeling left out due the strict usage of MSX-Player
- scene obviously not being able (or willing) to see things through the eyes of a company, a company that works together with other companies in order to do the things they do. It's obvious: first there were companies (80's), then there was scene ('90), and scene defined the way things went, in fact the scene assumed the MSX was theirs! Now there're companies again and they take over the steeringwheel again regarding legal matters and that could mean the scene has to obey to certain rules again (like mentioning the MSXA trademark thing on websites etc. nothing much shocking), and naturally a company can't accept warez, download FTP's etc. So they'll wrap it into a protective shell. Is it all that strange then? It was the choice also made by the companies that offered the games you get @ woomb now. Would one accuse those companies of having made pure Windows games, while you've all been playing the same games for years already? (and prolly illegal)

Ignore yes, exactly what I said on the other page: Like it? Get it. Don't like it? Leave it. But 'the product' won't just be changed because a few ppl think the product is a Windows game, or otherwise 'not good'.