Company Name
The company writes its name with a lowercase id, which is pronounced as in "did" or "kid", and in the book, Masters of Doom, it is said that the group was identified itself as "ideas from the deep" in the early days of Softdisk, but in the end the name 'id' came from the phrase, "in demand." It is presented by the company as a reference to the Id, a psychological concept introduced by Sigmund Freud. Evidence of the reference can be found as early as Wolfenstein 3D with the statement "that's id, as in the id, ego, and superego in the psyche" appearing in the game's documentation. Even today, Id's History page makes a direct reference to Freud.
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