User blog comment:Alienation999/Did DevEx kill the Ticket?/@comment-27711297-20160531172549/@comment-5893992-20160602110834

Tickets were very well used by active members. These 'stats' likely include alts and bots, which likely held 10+ Tickets, never to be used.

The Price Floor also led to the decline of the use of Tickets, as prices of everything skyrocketed, and free items were abolished. It is the same way German Marks were not commonly used during post-WW1 Germany. You could have shed-loads of money, and get very little.