This sorta interested me so I snooped around a bit. The guy's completely fell off the face of the internet. His twitter account, etc also stopped being updated at that time, leading to me to believe that "grant" cone 81 is no longer with us
I've been running gameservers for over 10 years and i've had admins around on the servers. Propably like 50-60 people total. Some have disappeared out of trace, some have said goodbye and never returned. Some still stick around, though games are not the ones we used to play together with.
What usually happens is:
1. They meet someone, and don't have time (or the girlfriend doesn't allow them to play anymore).
2. They lose interest to a game completely.
3. They linger around but don't play anymore.
4. They just leave and do not return.
It's called
Life.