Live as in Give, always. Buy in buy mode. Build in build mode. Liv(e) in liv(e) mode! The long i doesn't sound right to me anyway

not so obvious especially as I think this started because the people at EA pronounce it as in give.

For me its live mode as in alive. Live mode as in give sounds like incorrect English!

I didn't even know native speaker have differences about the pronunciation. The ingame translation to German transfers the live mode to Live-Modus using live such as in Live-Konzert (live concert, we stole the live-word from English a long time ago for this) and not such as in to live. This should have been Leben-Modus then. The translator thought of it as live as in alive and so do I because there is no other interpretation option in German.

I figure live is pronounced as in alive because it is the mode.

Buy mode
Build mode
and
Live mode

Of game operation.

I've never given it much thought, actually. I just like to play the game. I would have to agree with Menaceman44, in reference to grammatical consistency, "Live" as "to live" seems more correct. However, it could be seen as "going live", rhyming with "five".

I would think Live as in They Live

It's funny because it is the opposite in french, we say "Mode Vie" , for translation the "live" means "living", so I prononce like "living", "give". If it was live like "alive" this should be "Mode Direct" or "Mode en direct" or something like that and it does not seems appropriate.

I agree. In Spanish it's "vivir", and that is the equivalent to the second option...

Live (long i) as all other actions such as build, buy modes, fast forward/s and pause, all take you out of the live broadcast. We are the network producers, we control the cameras and, potentially, what they do and say. We write the main story and the extras are free to improvise.
That's just how I see it.
Based soley on the placement of the buttons Live (short i) is perfectly viable.


Come to think of it, when I look at the word the first thing that pops into my head is Live (long i) so maybe it is word association with the native english speakers.

Meh *shrugs* clicky clicky buttons, dems work den, me likey


edited due to rethinking of something taken for granted...lol, thanks MTS

Nope, that's just your Aunt's area (maybe), most of us pronounce it like hi-fi. No ad has ever said, "..and comes with free wee-fee"

...anyhow, here, have a beer

It's live, rhymes with jive, meaning that it takes place in real time.

Live, rhymes with shiv, meaning the act of not being dead, would be highly inappropriate, considering that the whole point of The Sims is to trap Sims in your basement and leave them to slowly starve to death.

Live, as in alive.
I guess it's just how you want to pronounce it

This is all very entertaining. I picked Option 3 as I do like to click buttons.

Never gave it a thought: suppose it would be live as in alive.like a news feed.

I say Live like Alive, because the game goes Live, as in active.

Voting for grammatical symmetry

I said Live like alive but the there more I think about it, I can't even remember now. Now it's just live as in alive because that seemed like the right answer. I'm going to have to forget this whole incident and somehow offhandedly catch myself in order to know the truth now. lol

Just before I hit the Live Mode button, I think, "Live in Five. . . Four. . .", etc. Then I start the Live Broadcast of My Sims Lives.

Umm, play it. You play it, you'll know what live mode is. Like what kind of functions do you get?
I'll go load it up soon, play it for a bit, then vote.

im pretty sure its live mode as in "you are the god and you give your sims a chance to live"

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not sure it is grammatically more consistent. At first glance it is, but the more I think about it, it doesn't seem right to me. Another poster made a good point that "buy" and "build" are NOT verbs here, and I agree. A verb is an action, an adjective is a descriptor. "Buy" and "build" in this context are adjectives, even though they are traditionally verbs. They are describing the "mode" in this instance. "Live" (rhyming with "give") is never used as an adjective. I can't think of a way to use it as one. It's always a verb. I think that's why "Live" ("give") mode sounds so weird to those of us who say "Live" (as in "alive"). It sounds wrong because it's not consistent with the other two. "Live" ("alive") is an adjective, like "buy" and "build", when put in front of "mode". So, in my opinion, the grammatically correct way to say it, would be "Live Mode" (rhyming with "alive"). I understand why people feel differently, that's just my justification for my own pronunciation. Either way, it doesn't really matter. "Po-tay-toe"/"Po-tah-toe", as others have said.