This was the first Starcraft game I have played as I wasn't really interested in it before... so i don't really have anything to compare it to. I did play a bit of Warcraft 3 but that was years ago. I found the story interesting although the Warcraft 3 one is supposed to be a lot better, don't really remember it.
I've played online 20+ times I think and its ok. But I hate playing 2v2 online cause someone will leave within the first few mins or if half their base gets wiped. Match making system feels alright though and making custom games is easy since you can bring your party into the match.
As I was saying in that other thread, there was a stupid bug where it says that you can't connect to battle.net cause its temporarily unavailable. Think it had something to do with when you registered with a certain a region it sometimes makes it a different region without displaying it and so you can't log in. Luckily for me I could log on after about 4 hrs but a lot of people had bought the game on release date and couldn't log on still a week later