Nexuiz - the name

[Xeno Daphron]

First time I saw it I read it as Nex-us. How many times are you going to say the name though?

[Grasshopper]

donno about you but when i have recruited 10 players to nexuiz i always said nex- ee - us .so sometimes it is a vocal word

[Xeno Daphron]

I guess you do say it for recruiting.

[Roanoke]

I've always said 'nex-ooyz' and I will continue to do so.

[shaggy]

The word is written only and should never be spoken.

Agree... I always feel like a idiot saying Nexuiz Don't sound good IRL :]

ditto
But if I try to say it, nex - you - is

[tundramagi]

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.

There's nothing wrong with the name.
Your argument that the name will alienate code contributors is absolutely rediculious and pure unabashed speculation that is common from the mouths of players who never really did any development. Many people love to give advice when they have no basis to do so.

[C.Brutail]

He has spoken. Let us not respond.
It's funny,that every time there's a new release,this question comes up by newcommers
What if there would be a section in the official faq, that tells the "official-unofficial" explanation?

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

YaaaY! No, let's not. Hmm, maybe it's like "Linux" and me.... i suffer from high antipathy towards that word. But let's not start about psychological affections of names. It's highly susceptible to personal experience.

[Chubby]

heh, in dutch would it sound like neksieeeeuzz

[Ozomahtli]

heh, in dutch would it sound like neksieeeeuzz

i pronounce it Nexwis in dutch