Board Thread:ROBLOX help and discussion/@comment-4196050-20170619204847/@comment-27082549-20180126150233

XDXDMNOOB wrote: MalikTH wrote: Tickets were removed mostly to encourage microtransactions. They want money, they'll do whatever to earn it. Even if that means flipping off the userbase, though they'd have to think twice about that.

They also cited reasons on their announcement about bots and such, which is believable, but the main reason is to encourage purchases of Robux and Builders Club. probably the most ignorant post ive seen. first, yeah, it could be true... but just remember, servers cost a lot of money. especially for a huge game like roblox. also, the reason to remove it was to fix the economy. what would happen if a country started handing out free "tickets" to people to exchange for money at absolutely no cost? the economy would be crap. I was more or less looking at it from a business standpoint. Removing a free way to obtain a premium currency would cause people to spend more money on that currency and in turn get more money. This could be spent on server uptime, as you've said.

It could (and likely is) also be to fix the economy as well. There are multiple reasons backing removal, bots among them.