http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31374
--- Comment #44 from Marti Raudsepp marti@juffo.org 2012-10-30 13:34:36 CDT --- Obviously Steam is a very popular application among Wine gamers.
This bug has been open 3 months now and spanned 6 releases, so Wine developers are not in a haste to apply a proper fix for the problem. Until that happens, why not just revert the dwrite patch that caused the regression in the first place?