Yes, I'm a geek

OK, as the title states I'm a geek.  Not one of those 18 hour a day computer using, gaming geeks but I do enjoy playing my share of video games, both PC and PS3.  What really gets to me is when I AM going to play a game and can't because of the fact thatt large corporations can't keep their servers running without issues. 

The current one being World of Warcraft.  Why can't they protect their servers and keep them running?  It's ridiculous.  When one tries to log in and gets this: 

one does tend to get upset, especially when one has to pay to play his game!!  I'm not asking for much, I understand Tuesdays I we can't play for half the day because of the updates and patches etc. but don't give us any other reasons not to be able to play, it's getting out of hand.