On August 17, 2006, F.E.A.R.’s multiplayer component was retitled F.E.A.R. Combat and made available for free download.
During the next years, Monolith, Punkbuster, Sierra (Activision) and WBGames ended their support for the game. The Original page of the game stopped offering new CDKeys. This meant that new players could not play and led to a decline in the game.
With the FEAR Master Server Shut down by GameSpy on December 5, 2012, the game couldn’t find running servers, and servers couldn’t be run anymore.
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