At least 70 000 South Africans are sufficiently frustrated with their arch-nemeses on the road — taxi drivers — to rush to pummel them in cyberspace.
This is according to iLogic, the creators of online game Taxi Wars, who claim to have tapped into the ”vein of public frustration”.
According to iLogic, their website has received a whopping 70 000 visitors in the 24 hours since the site had first appeared in the media.
”This has been an interesting couple of days. So surprised have we been, we’ve even had to move to a server that can cope with greater bandwidth. The public have clearly spoken on the issue,” said Yoav Tchelet, director of iLogic.
The game allows motorists to vent their latent frustration after being overtaken, cut off on the road or delayed while taxis hog the slow lane one time too many — by pummelling both the vehicle and its driver and then signing off their handiwork by spray-painting their name across the shattered vehicle.
Shortly after the game entered the public domain, taxi drivers made light of the public’s perceived dislike of them, but iLogic said the popularity of the game ”serves to prove that the frustration runs much deeper”. — Sapa