Starcraft 2 - worth buying?

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I can definitely report that there's some issues with maphacking going on, especially in the 1v1 bracket, even at the high leagues. Oddly enough, they seem to be Terran players more often than not. I can accept the excuse of having good gamesense, but it gets to the point where gamesense no longer covers it. Routinely knowing exactly what I'm building, where it's going, and how many there are, without any sort of scouting (not a single SCV scout, no scans, not even Factory scouting) stretches belief. It's pretty ridiculous to proxy a Spire, build the Mutalisks, and find that in the intervening two minutes, he's built an Engineering Bay and has turrets all over his bases - without any scouting or scanning.

Likewise, it's dumb to fake Mutalisks, build Roaches, and run into a solid wall of Marauders when all he had was Marines previously. You can go back through these replays, watch only his view, and see that there was no possible way he could know what was happening, and yet... boom, counter units, and those units are in place. Lucky, perhaps, but luck only goes so far.

Until Blizzard gets the glitching and outright hacking under control, I'd strongly recommend not picking up SC2. The campaign was terrible (the gameplay was fun, everything else about it was trash), the AI isn't even close to being a challenge (will have to wait for AI mods), and hacking is becoming more commonplace in multiplayer. Additionally, the multiplayer balance itself is in a pretty sad state, and Blizzard seems to be glacially slow in addressing it.

Counterpoints:

• I loved the campaign, even the parts that weren't gameplay.
  
• I haven't run into any maphacking in leagues. Not saying it isn't out there, but it certainly isn't a reason to avoid the game.
  
• Insane AI is incredibly difficult to beat unless you 6 pool it, or are already really good at SC2.
  
• Balance is NOT that bad, and patch 1.1 is a step in the right direction (and isn't glacial; it comes out this month).