Most players dislike the lower priced tickets because the payouts with reasonable odds are usually pretty low.
For example, in PA there is a new $1 ticket called "Cash Cow" which has a 1 in 120,000 chance to win $500.
This means that "on average" if you bought 120,000 of these cash cow tickets, you would find a $500 winner.
If the odds played out like they should, it would cost you $120,000 to win $500. Thats the expected amount of
$1 tickets you going to buy before you find that $500 winner.
PA also has a new $20 ticket out called "Million Dollar Supercash". The odds to win $500 on it are 1 in 315.79.
So if you bought basically 316 tickets, you might expect to find one $500 winner. Those 316 tickets would cost you
$6,320. Compare this to the $120,000 you need to invest, on average, to win $500 on the $1 ticket "Cash Cow" ticket.
Just for the sake of comparing, lets throw the new PA $2 ticket in. Chances of winning $500 on it are 1 in 30,000. So you
need to buy, on average, $60,000 worth of the PA "Lucky Valentine" ticket to find a $500 winner. So while you can buy
many more tickets for the money, your odds are almost always worse with the smaller tickets.