This was partially confirmed in a Roblox blog post: 'The reason behind removing tickets is not to make more money. Because of players botting, this resulted in players being able to convert all of these obtained tickets into large amounts of Robux. However, around 2017, players began speculating that the true reason that Roblox removed tickets was due to players using bot accounts to obtain free tickets in various ways, such as Place Visits, or through transactions. Picture from the official ROBLOX site when Tickets were still a currency.Īlthough it was suspected that this was because Roblox has been undergoing financial difficulties, no evidence has ever been shown for this. On March 15, 2016, Roblox announced through a blog post that tickets would be discontinued the following month, claiming that the currency was causing 'confusion and delay' for many first-time users. Users could earn a substantial amount of profit by buying a large amount of Robux for a lower price, then exchange them later for a larger sum of Tickets.Īlong with Tickets, RoblEX was removed on April 14, 2016.ĭiscontinuation Announcement (March 15, 2016)

This, in turn, created the Roblox economy as the price of Tickets and Robux changed through supply and demand. RoblEX, commonly known as the Currency Exchange, was a feature that allowed users to trade in their Tickets for ROBUX and vice versa.

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