D2R is nigh, D4 is in the pipeline and D3 is on it’s knees…
What’s your fondest memory?
Invulnerable minions?
Getting a yellow dagger with 3.00% life steal for your WW barb?
TRIALS!!! HA… remember trials?
Getting a double socket Manticore?
For me… it was having a friends list over 100 and knowing them all. Now it’s not even 10 and only 4 of us still play 
…All those moments will be lost in time, like… tears in rain…
When is a game dead? I meet a ton of different players each season still.
again with the selective reading on this forum… that’s one memory I will not miss
ALMOST dead
I don’t see this at all. Streamers still stream this. We still get some content each season.
I still met players from 1-70 the other day while leveling.
Each season start people gather around to binge play D3. I don’t think it will die or almost die any time soon.
I would say I had a blast from seasons 20-22ish. I really enjoyed the fourth cube slot. I didn’t enjoy the follower change because I consistently play Diablo 3 with a group and only with a group. When we went from four to two because my friends began to move to Path is when the game felt a little lonesome.
My fondness memory is the first time I completed GR100. I thought that was the end goal. How things change. You barely need any set items now to do GR100. Dang Power Creep.
D3 isn’t almost dead, it will die when they shut it down, never before that, because it has its own diehard audience.
Even games that flopped hard (like Wolcen) still survive all the way until the deveopers pull the plug on the server (like Anthem). You might not believe there are many playing D3 now, but when they shut it down, you’ll see the truth, it will show in the complaints.
D3 is mutch like Schrödingers cat. Dead for some, very mutch alive for others. So it’s alive and dead at the same time.
I got a dual-socket Manticore in vanilla.
Sadly, as this was before Loot v2, it rolled with INT so was worthless.
Inferno difficulty. A true end game challenge. Not repetitive rifts with just increasing numbers.
Idk about this… More likely, you will get a last patch and that’s it. It will probably be the same story as with D2, but without a Remaster and possibly less players in the long run.
A necromancer class set that was actually usable, though it did require a synergizing legendary item which, for me, was always a pain in the mule to loot. The last time, I was struggling to survive on Torment IV until, magically, that amulet dropped and instantly the character was capable of Torment XVI. That was fun. And the items worn weren’t even ancient.
And then, in this season, my Barbie picked an ancient necro amulet which I was excited to keep for non-season, as an upgrade. And then… nerf bat on top of nerf bat.
thats not just d3 thing - that’s life. 
D3 is not dead I play it every season. I run solo so I do not care about a “friends” list. My fondest memory is finding an item that I did not even know was in the game. Like the MURLOCKET and RAKANISHU’S BLADE with the legendary ability. I also really enjoyed the follower/Shen side quests in RoS. As long as D3 is on life support it will not be dead for me until I pull the plug on it which will be the launch of D4.
sure most of those 30kk are not around anymore but we cant say its dead.
For a dying game like D3, the leaderboard for all regions always got filled very fast and it is almost impossible for casual players to make into Top 10 no matter how hard he tried.
Getting my WD iver 100k dps in vanilla lol
When new players stop coming in significant numbers. That’s my argument when I say WoW (or the MMORPG genre itself) is dying. It’s not dying because there’s not a lot of people there (there is), it’s dying because less and less people are getting into it. When new blood stops coming, it becomes a stale game, because then the tendency of growth ends and the tendency of decline begins. Now, let’s see the D3 example.
There are 3 new Diablo games on the horizon (well, 2 if you really hate Immortal, at least one if you don’t consider D2R a new game). What reason is there for anyone new to get into D3 at this point? The game isn’t the cheapest ARPG around (at least where I live it never even goes on sale), there isn’t much promotion for it, and the fresh new games will be here soon. Unless it’s someone who is REALLY interested into getting into Diablo right now, I don’t see how the game has a future of growth.