I can say this is an iffy situation. I used to be heavy in STO as well. It started off as an Atari license but eventually went to Cryptic, then Perfect World. Since Perfect World, new content has been a little dry and micro transactions increased. Monthly paid subs are still available, but you have to do a google search to find it as it's not anywhere on the main site. Even so, the best gear is still in the zen store(micro transactions) and that's the only way to get a tier 6 ship other than the standard cruiser gifted to veteran players. All though SWTOR has the cartel, most items are cosmetic for the most part and doesn't cut a whole portion of the game off just because you have to have the right tier of equipment that happens to only be acquired through micro transaction or veteran gift which only works well enough for the story, but not group play. If Bioware is no longer able to run SWTOR, it will either be shut down, or in a likely scenario, it may be housed in a small server for the new company to manage but not really any new content so the profits can still come in from the subs and micro transactions.

So I just found my video card is too out dated and I am not sure what kind to get to replace it. I have a Dell inspiron 1564 laptop with 3 gig ram and intel graphics media accelerator i3 core processor, the tech support says if I update my driver it might make the game work but I can't find an update past 2009 for my driver also I bought this computer brand new in 2010, so should I just give up and wait for the far off day of income tax to get a new computer or is there a decent price video card I can get for my laptop