Important - how do you pronounce 'Live mode'

Live like hive. I click the button and my sims come alive. I don't live with them, but they are alive when I play.

I can see it being either one, but I always pronounce it the same as it is in alive.

Since like Sims 2 days me & everyone I knew among friends & family said live as in alive. Even once I started watching Sims 3 videos on youtube I always heard people saying it like this. Lately I've seen a couple Sims 4 youtubers calling it the other way, but that's new to me. IMO it's always been like "you can pause, you can fast forward, and now we're live" for live mode.

press button = game starts moving = is live

I do not live in the game
well yet anyway maybe in year 4000 when they hook me up to some machine and transfer my long dead brain over to the virtual world

I started playing with Sims 1 and live (hive) just seemed right to me. Maybe, because growing up, live was more of a thing. Live radio, live tv, live shows. Going to live mode after having the game paused for any reason made sense. I've heard people use it in Sims and other games for years. The first time I ever heard anyone say live (give) was last year. I don't watch a lot of YouTube.

Googling the question and reading the answers here makes me think that it's maybe a 60/40 split in favor of the long i among players. I wonder what Will Wright called it?

At any rate, I've been saying live (hive) for 23 years, too long to change it now. It sounds too weird to me.

I have always said "live" to rhyme with "alive" in the 20 plus years I have been playing The Sims games.

"Oldeseadogge;c-18212733" wrote:
I go by proper English grammar/usage. In this context, live rhyming with alive & hive. They are two different words, thus the two different pronunciations.

This right here. For anyone who's actually well-grounded in English grammar (I know -- thing of the past, I guess), "live," that sounds like "alive," is an adjective. "Live," that sounds like "give," is a verb. Adjectives are descriptive modifiers for nouns, verbs describe some manner of action. So the natural (according to English grammar) word to modify/describe the "mode" would be "live," the adjective, which sounds like "alive."

Oh, I know what Ninja says, but live (give) sounds oh so wrong, so I'm sayin' live (jive dive into the hive - high five!) and he can't make me. I'll defend this hill with @EA_Cade. B)

I thought everyone pronounces it like live in New York it's Saturday night.

This ranks right up there with the "which way to hang the toilet paper" discussion. :D

I say it like alive, live like hive sounds funny to me. Obviously YMMV