Nexuiz - the name

[ai]

Just pronounce it the exact way it's spelled and problem solved. How hard can it be? I think the whole concept of changing the name is dumb just because some people cannot read or spell.
If I spell 'icecream' wrong like 'icekream' doesn't mean they will change it. And I bet tons of people spelled that word wrong who are not familiar with English. Same story goes for Nexuiz.

[[-z-]]

color, colour

[torus]

Color.

[Alien]

Nexuiz sounds better in my language than nexiuz.

[ai]

Well, Nexuiz is not the same as 'color'/'colour'. As Nexuiz is a name (of a game), and there is only one way to spell it. Color/colour are US/UK versions of a language.
I cannot spell Portal as Pourtal. That would be weird.

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

"Pourtail". i like that. Reapait: P O U R T A I L

[[-z-]]

I cannot spell Portal as Pourtal. That would be weird.

That's between you and the UK

Colour's probably the original spelling however and thus it's more "correct" than color. During Shakespearean times, the English language was highly unmoderated. People would spell things however they pleased / knew how. Only the strongest words/spellings stuck when the language became more standardized.

[exitcode1]

I think the problem with pronouncing it exactly the way it is spelled is that it would cause you to say it incorrectly, heh. Unfortunately, I think this has a deeper effect than a cheap laugh at a lan party though...

As somebody mentioned above, the main menu says it necks-e-us, and I think that's as bad a mispronunciation as Bush saying nu'-kya-ler (NO, I'm not bringing politics into the discussion!). You can't make "clear" sound like "kya ler"--the letters just aren't in that order. Period. As the name is spelled right now, the u is before the i, so it would be pronounced "necks you is" or "necks uh is" (plus the z isn't helping anything).

Back to my point; I just found out about the game (yes, *sigh* via slashdot) and as an outsider looking in, this issue seemed pretty glaring. As a community fighting for developers, I'm surprised a name fix hasn't happened yet. Out loud, the name "Nexius" is a fun, memorable, made up but plausible word appropriate for an open source indy community game. But (and I'm dead serious here) in print, "Nexuiz" smacks of 13375P34|< and scriptkiddies and will turn off some potential players and, more to the point, it will also (no pun intended) alienate code contributors. I'm a developer and my first reaction to reading about Nexuiz was rolling my eyes. Then I played it and my opinion changed. That's an unfortunate progression. I gave Warsow, Urban Terror, Tremulous, and .kkreiger their ten minutes of interest and moved on. Neck Soyuz is worth much much more attention and even involvement, in spite of its name.

I can imagine the marketing meeting where someone brought up names like Little Big Plenat, Bayoushock, Hoalo 3, and Quaek (and I can imaging the one-on-one meeting after the meeting *ahem*).

[ai]

Even if you are correct in your point (I'm not really against that nor for that either). 'Nexuiz' is too well known now (by those who knows it ), in my personal opinion, it's too late to change anything. The word, is now loved by many people and many are used to it.

I think the problem with pronouncing it exactly the way it is spelled is that it would cause you to say it incorrectly, heh.

It might be true, I did have this problem but, if one really pays attention one would try to rethink how to pronounce it
In fact, how you said it would be pronounced (necks uh is), is pretty much dead on, except I say 'iz' in the end instead. To me, it's perfectly natural, while if I try to say 'Necks ii us' I find it a bit hard I'm too used to the other now, my mind wants to say 'necks uh iz'

[Alien]

As I said, it only matters for English speakers.