Lower the Guns Campaign

The Lower the Guns Campaign is a campaign being undertaken by machinima directors as well as ordinary fans and players. Their goal is to convince Bungie to allow Halo 3's alert carry trick to function on Xbox Live. Their most notable protest took place on September 25th 2008, when supporters of the campaign refrained from playing Halo 3 for the day.

History
Lower the Guns' Bungie.net group was founded on 7/06/2008.

Biggest Group on Bungie.net
On 10/28/2008, Lower the Guns became the biggest group on Bungie.net at 4888 members. Before this date, the biggest group was Compound Intelligence, which was founded by the Bungie.net Forum Ninja x Foman 123 x back when Iris was starting.

Around 7/12/2009, they "lost the lead" to another group.

Operation HOWL
As far back as October 23, 2008, "Phase 2" of the group's operations was planned. "Phase 2" took the form of Operation HOWL (Halo Online Weapon Lowering), a plan to have at least ten thousand gamers protest by refusing to play Halo 3 on Bungie Day 2009.

On the day before Bungie Day 2009, a reminder was posted. However, due to confusion among Lower the Guns' own members and its supporting groups, in combination with the popularity of the "Bungie vs. World" playlist, the Operation HOWL protest failed to reach its target, with only an estimated 1,000 protesters taking action on that date.

Since the failure of Operation HOWL, it is unknown what the Lower The Guns group will do next. The group's founder, BoldDoughnut, stated a new campaign would arise with the announcement, and full preparations would begin the night of the Halo Community Live event. Other than this information, nothing is known about the next protest.

External

 * Bungie.net Usergroup for the Campaign