Not all catalog items underwent an automatic conversion to its value according to the rate. Items sold with a Ticket price had their price converted to Robux at a rate of 17:1. The price floor of catalog items was lowered to 5 Robux to compensate for the removal of Tickets. While it did help the economy in a way, it made it difficult for non-Builders Club users to afford the Tixapalooza event items.Ģ017 icon, 1 year after the removal of Tix Exclusive, commemorative items were sold in the catalog from March 15, 2016, to April 14, 2016.Īt the start of the discontinuation of Tickets, daily Ticket bonuses were removed to prevent farming Tickets for currency exchange purposes. Tixapalooza was an event to celebrate the removal of tickets. Tixapalooza (March 15 - April 14, 2016) Ĭommemorative items that were released between March and April 2016. Large amounts of users were unhappy and angry with the announcement and voiced their disapproval on the Forums. The primary reasons have always been product simplicity, botting, and not incentivizing certain behaviors.' -David Baszucki 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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