Makes sense. I guess there was an issue with it because GameGuard is used and wine can't work around that. So I guess no one on Linux or Mac can play this unless they find another work around.
Has anyone on a Unix system tried running this game in wine? I have seen that people can get to create a character but I never see any game play done this way.
I have been having the same issue. What patch are you guys on? I have only managed to be on patch 1.1 I think... the game has not been able to patch since.