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No, not at all. By default Wine should offer your whole Linux drive on Z:, so you can choose whatever location you want.
Heroic puts the games in
~/Games/Heroic/gamenamebut the .wine folder in~/Games/Heroic/prefixes/gamename. Steam does something similar.You should also consider using a helper like Lutris, Heroic or Bottles. They create a separate .wine folder for every game. That way it is easier to manage multiple conflicting libraries and Wine versions. If your home is on BTRFS or other deduplicating filesystem the additional space needed for multiple .wine folders is almost zero.
If you don't want to use a helper program you can still utilise multiple non-standard .wine locations with the
WINEPREFIXenvironment variable.Yeah I wasn't sure if it was necessary. I use a few Windows vst apps with yabridge, but I suppose those need to get installed in specific places so the apps know where to look. Seems like for games I can just change the install directory to my other drive and run from there. Thanks for the write up, I was actually planning to launch using Heroic, just wasn't sure if games through Wine needed the C:\ drive prefix.
It creates a virtual C:\ drive for the programs in the bottle. Externally it doesn't matter where it is as long as your launch script/application knows where it is.