How do you pronounce it? What if you're pronouncing it wrong? Do you care? I do. Hence this post.

Pronunciation

According to proper English it should be Ar-kee-Age. Listen here. There are two ways of pronouncing it properly.

This is in line with words that have the same prefix such as archeology and archetype.

But this does not roll off the tongue as well as Ark-Age does. 

Jake Song has stated that it is pronounced Ark-Age.

Pronouncing ArcheAge with the Arche as in 'march' is not correct.

The word Arche

"Arche (?ρχ?) is a Greek word with primary senses 'beginning', 'origin' or 'first cause' and 'power', 'sovereignty', 'domination' as extended meanings."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arche

How does it fit in with the lore?

From what's known so far: http://archeagewiki.com/Setting

"In the ancient days, our ancestors used to live on a highly civilized continent, but they had to flee to East and West without a reason we know about.

In ArcheAge, you begin playing two thousand years later, and you must find the cause of that big disaster, while simultaneously quenching your curiosity, enjoying the game and exploring the world."

From what I gather this can indicate some kind of beginning. Origin Age or some such.

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced: "Sandbox Messiah"

Man, seriously, find something better to do

No offense

Originally posted by tom_gore

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced: "Sandbox Messiah"

Sandpark :p

Originally posted by dinams

Man, seriously, find something better to do

No offense

None taken! I am well aware.

Originally posted by LlexX
We had a debate about this already on another forum, firstly we thought it should be pronounced as arch+age, then an official response came, that it should be pronounced as ark+age, like if you would say dARK+AGE without the "d" letter.

Same..Ark(silent E) Age

i say it "Fing korean game i can not try/play because im not korean" i think that is how you say it correctly.....

honestly though, does it really matter? it could be like archer age without an R wouldnt change anything people will just shorten it to A-A like they did auto assault and every other game since 1989..

Originally posted by LlexX
We had a debate about this already on another forum, firstly we thought it should be pronounced as arch+age, then an official response came, that it should be pronounced as ark+age, like if you would say dARK+AGE without the "d" letter.

Well...I still think they're wrong but I'll concede...it's their game after all. 

Do you remember on which forums the official response was posted?

Originally posted by Phry
afaik its just pronounced  'ark-age' at least, thats how it would be pronounced in english. in other languages.. anybodies guess.

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=arche&submit=Submit

That's English.

Originally posted by KillSwitch69
Psyche is spelled with an e and is still pronounced psych.

The variant of psyche (psych) is indeed pronounced as saik.

The variant not referring to psych is still pronounced as saiki. Like so: http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=psyche&submit=Submit or http://translate.google.nl/?hl=nl&tab=wT#ja/en/psyche (click the little listen icon)

Originally posted by KillSwitch69
Psyche is spelled with an e and is still pronounced psych.

That word is said in two different ways with a few different meanings. So there is indeed a "psy-kee".

But I've also just been referring to the game as "Arch", mainly because I only see it come up in passing and have never cared enough to look into it passed a video I watched a long time ago.

I personally don't think the pronunciation of the name is at all important, though.

It's Ark-Age, get over it, you wanna now why it's ark-age and nothing anything else ?

Because i say so !

Originally posted by NBlitz

Originally posted by LlexX
We had a debate about this already on another forum, firstly we thought it should be pronounced as arch+age, then an official response came, that it should be pronounced as ark+age, like if you would say dARK+AGE without the "d" letter.

Well...I still think they're wrong but I'll concede...it's their game after all. 

Do you remember on which forums the official response was posted?

There was a video interview when the Russians asked questions from XLgames, and they (Korean PR) pronounced it as Ark+Age, atm i can't find the source for discussion when they confirmed it. But you might call it differently on different languages.

Originally posted by tom_gore

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced: "Sandbox Messiah"

 

You mean Hybrid Messiah.

"Ar-kee" Age sounds silly and childish.

Ark-age sounds too much like a Disney/Pixar movie about life aboard Noah's Ark.

Arch-Age sounds all emo as if it's the arch-nemesis of the age... so that makes it inherently more cool and edgy.

I may or may not be 67% kidding.