ID games - how are you supposed to say it?

[trickycurve]

I've always pronounced it "eye-dee" as well, and don't plan on stopping any time soon. Besides, "id" doesn't sound right, even though--allegedly--it is.

 

[jmc007]

I've always called it a mixture of id and I.D, never knowing for sure how it was pronounced, think I mainly called it id though, or was it mainly I.D? Both sound ok to me.

Thread boring now so roll vt

 

[bobert50]

Yea i call it eye-dee software and always have. They're wrong and i'm right!!

I only realised it was pronounced id software after seeing some carmack interview a few years back.

 

[Proc]

Think most ppl call it i.d. but thinks its meant to be id. Every vid i've seen on their games or about the company its referred to as id.

 

[arc@css]

I have aways said i.d rather than id and if I remember correctly on the flash screen before starting Quake 2 or 3. id is stamped out as i (with a pause) d. Which is where I think I got i.d from and I never heard of them being called id always i.d. It most have been a misconception that id has run with rather than correct. What game are they working on now?

The triple A class titles they are working on are 'Rage' and 'Doom4'. There is, I believe, a third title that they may announce at this year's Quakecon.

 

[Rroff]

like wise I've always called them ahy-dee - but the "correct" as id software prefer it is id like in lid.

 

[Dev2]

I've had this debate before. It's 'id'. I checked several sources. The people at ID call it 'id' and not I.D. and thats good enough for me.

Not that it really matters either way.

 

[arc@css]

I'll just keep saying I.D. software even though I'm wrong. It's unlikely Tim Willits and John Carmack are going to beat me up for it. If they did Carmack would be shouting insults like "Vertexes and fragments!!!!" as he gave me a pasting.

 

[iviv]

I'll just keep saying I.D. software even though I'm wrong. It's unlikely Tim Willits and John Carmack are going to beat me up for it. If they did Carmack would be shouting insults like "Vertexes and fragments!!!!" as he gave me a pasting.

"You zetta sons of digits!"

 

[Blackbadger]

At a 3D Games dev conference I.D Software dev's were there giving talks, and they represented themselves as "eye dee software".

 

[Ste]

It started out as 'id'.

Read 'masters of doom' (book) if you like id - great read

 

[Shep_Cobain]

I call it Eye Dee, but it is id - as in hid without the H

 

[Chaos]

5 seconds in

 

[linktoinsanity]

^^Id as in id-iot it is then.

I've always, and will always pronounce it as eye-dee (I.D.) Software however, so this thread changes nothing!

 

[RickST]

i say id, always have, but i was brought up in the states

 

[arc@css]

"You zetta sons of digits!"

 

[Gommsta]

Because americans can't pronounce anything right, look at how they say aluminium...a-loo-min-um...idiots, lol

Actually they pronounce it correctly.

It is us who are wrong as the brits wanted it to be more "classical" sounding.

 

[QlimaxUK]

so its 'ide' then as in the end of 'hide'
i always saw it as I.D too

its a bit like 'nike' back in school everyone called this 'NIKE' as in the way you would say 'bike' but was in shock when we found out this was actually nike-E although i still think that 'nike' sounds a lot better

 

[Souness]

if the question is do i pronounce id "id" then yes. I also pronounce milk "milk", beer "beer", and wood "wood".

 

[SixTwoSix]

Actually they pronounce it correctly.

It is us who are wrong as the brits wanted it to be more "classical" sounding.

So do americans spell it differently to aluminium? If not it's still being mispronounced