> It's generally the more complex and cutting-edge stuff that makes use of newer pieces of .NET, DirectX, or rarely-used components of obscure APIs that WINE struggles with.

Yeah, this is why Wine tends to use the "get the application to work" method. Thankfully a lotta the guys at Codeweavers are gamers who want their stuff to work too ;-)

.NET is a friggin' nightmare IME, even after you've installed over half a gigabyte of Microsoft downloads.