http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26835
--- Comment #82 from Timothy Pearson kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net 2011-04-23 13:27:13 CDT ---
Understood, kdesudo reboot.
A legal way to help all of us who have this problem is to yell at Valve in this thread:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=22031152
You don't have to tell them you are using Wine, just state that you cannot use NTFS and that the system requirements did not mention that NTFS was a prerequisite. People on Windows and FAT32/exFAT/etc. are having the exact same problem, and it is a suspected problem in the Valve DRM for this game.
If enough people have this problem Valve must solve it or refund our money, as they start to risk a class action lawsuit.