Do you have the Ticketmaster app? I have 3 future events in my ticketmaster app and all of them don't show the barcode by default but it does give the option to view it. But I also checked my Red Wings tickets, which is somehow linked to Ticketmaster but only available through the Wings site, and yes... no barcode. Just the bouncing thing.
I hate paperless tickets. My friend sent 10 of us into his suite last week and it was a cluster.... only 3 of us had the tickets in our phones. You had to go out with one of them to be let back into the suite area.
I get why they do it and it's not just the Tigers or Wings or Lions.... but it doesn't speed things up at the gate. Everyone's fussing with their phones, trying to get it to work.
That's why on flights I always print my boarding pass at the airport. It's their pass. It's their ink, their paper, etc. If there's an issue it's their fault, it's not my phone's brightness or whatever.