Funny thing is, I didn't know him too well, but I'd still known him for a good 5-6 years ingame. Earlier in 2012, we'd play in a grapple knife DM, which is when I started to get to know him more. And by that, I only mean how he played and how we cooperated in general. I wasn't keeping tabs on many people specifically at the time, so the news of his death flew over my head, but I had been curious as to where he went.
I can't come close to expressing the empathy many other members of the community can, simply because I didn't know him well enough (not because I didn't care about him, but because my word isn't valuable when we only shared a few conversations), but I certainly miss his company, and never saw him as being anything but a fantastic individual.