are you sure they sold them? people often come back after a dc and rage that the team has sold their items when actually it was jsut done automatically by the game.
The game does not automatically sell your items as far as I know. Players usually sell them once the 5 minutes are up.
I have no problem with items being sold. It's a bonus for the team to help them if they lose a player. Nobody knows if you're coming back and removing this or extending the time limit will give the team with the missing player an even larger disadvantage.
If you want to play competitively and avoid this problem then get with the times and buy an SSD it's only $100. I can restart my computer fully, launch Dota and rejoin in about 2-3 minutes.
I had an abbaddon the other day but I had 4k in my stash do I guess it really helped my team survive when I was gone 1 k each , I still had my items tho skadi shadow blade treads Aquila if they had sold my stuff I wouldn't have been able to close the game tho it went from being a sure victory to a hard win tho I still lost -25 mmr so I mostly tried hard for my team.
@Rocket The game doesn't sell your items automatically. I saw the replay as well.
@Marlan I mean, I'm talking about probability here, at least the vague knowledge of it that I have. Most of the times that a player leaves the game they usually come back, so it's the thing that when they come back it actually is more harmful if your teammates sell your items for half the price, not really making it worth at all then actually waiting for whoever disconnected to get back.
I still think that he sold the items because he was losing mid lane REALLY hard because he was just bad and didn't play safe at all. Constantly feeding kills and having stupid deaths.
@MARLAN
How exactly SSD helps?
Few days ago my windows decided to install updates and reboot twice while I played DOTA. Game was lost and my teammates cursed me, when I actually returned after about 8 minutes (nobody sold my items BTW).
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I just played a game where I was playing as rubick and I was trying my damn fucking best to help the team in TFs up until the moment my PC froze. It's not a big surprise that no one paused the game, it continued going on and when my 5 minutes were up, the best player on the team (Kappa) sells my items for a wonderful amount of 531 gold for each player. Considering how well he was doing up until that moment in the game I guess it was the most amount of gold he could ever get without feeding.
The thing is: I get back in the game and my items are gone. After wishing everyone's miserable demise in a flaming death, I had to try and get my items back, which basically made me useless for the next 15-20 minutes. And we eventually lost the game because, well, our carries were trash.
I'm not saying I was playing perfectly or anything of the sorts. The point I'm trying to get to here is that it's not too often that players quit a match and when that happens, they most often come back instead of leaving for good. 5 minutes for most cases isn't really enough time for someone to get back in the game after their PC crashes or something (without a pause) and after that anyone can just have freedom over your items and sell them if needed.
I'm sorry to bring this up, but you cannot sell items in LoL and though I guess that makes it kind of harder if the player doesn't come back, but usually it's not really worth selling the AFK player's items. It only gives back half the value worth of the items and it also splits it between the remaining players.
This really pissed me off, but got me thinking if this is a mechanic that is really necessary in the game. What do you think? (inb4 people saying gitgud)