There is some mention related to this on page 46 i.e. #904, #907, #913, #915
As I said, those are
rumors and
assumptions:
- "We lost this wonderful dev to the initial pandemic" — no evidence is given that this is true. It's just a statement made out of the blue.
The next post you point to is someone making circumstantial statements and cobbling them together to form a conspiracy theory and run with it.
- "This dev is most probably already 'DEAD' " — the "evidence" cited is circumstantial: he visited China, his social media was shut down, and "he himself vanished without a trace". Hardly proof of someone's death.
The last two posts you reference are the same guy as above, attempting to defend his conspiracy theory by emphasizing exactly the same points over and over. Like I said before, what he claims is
possible, but the only real evidence is that the dev disappeared from online. There are
tons of reasons that could've happened: friend/family found out and he was given an ultimatum to give up his game; friend/family found out and his embarrassment made him abandon the game; he was witness to a serious crime and entered WITSEC; he got majorly depressed from what someone online said about/to him so he gave it all up since it was too much for him; and so on. Assuming he is dead is just one of many possible explanations.