Originally Posted by
Fabo.sk
Don't be so down on him, maybe he has couple of years of organic platinum already, but now has a slow year for whatever reason, change of job, local project...
The OP clearly states that he is currently Gold. ("to upgrade from Gold to Platinum").
In case there is any doubt,
lifetime platinum requires 10 consecutive and uninterrupted years of Platinum. If you had 7 years in a row at Platinum in the past, and drop down to Gold, you can't just claim another 3 years of Platinum somewhere down the line and get lifetime. Each time you drop down from Platinum, your "lifetime counter" goes back to zero.
In the OP's case, I think that even 90XP is a lot to earn just for the sake of Platinum.
What the OP is contemplating, however, is not just "running" to get another 90XP this year, but "running" (on top of a seemingly organic Gold-level pattern) to amass a total of 2790 XP in the coming decade, all for the promise that something *may* happen in 2030. That is a considerable, and expensive, "commitment" to make, when nobody's reasonable event horizon extends 10 years into the future.