Originally Posted by
steved5480
It would seem to depend entirely upon what the object/your goal is. Do you have a specific MLife tier you wish to attain? If so, then the second part of the question would be what level and what frequency do you play?
As you observed, MLife tier qualifying year begins October 1st. I re-upped for Platinum for 2016 (10-1-15 thru 9-30-16) by early January of 2015 (3+ months). There are probably others that are "Noir forever" (if there even is such a thing), while it might take others 11+ months to attain Gold or whatever.
As others have opined, simply "playing for status" (in ANY program) is statistically and financially a bad idea and a poor proposition. In my case, "status" is just something that happens by virtue of the frequency and level at which I play. That is to say status level (any level) is something that just "happens", not something I'm directly focused on attaining in and of itself.
YMMV
I did get to Platinum level in Mlife before I quit.
I'm close to requalifying for 7* in CET--but getting beyond 150,000 TC doesn't get me enough extras; at 250,000 TC a few more nice things happen.
[Borgata in AC
had a link with Mlife, which was severed...there are rumors it may be restored--that would be even more of an impetus to switch to Mlife.]
[CET
may have to be dismantled--so having another system to play in could be useful to me.]