About us

Who are we?


GBX stands for Global Bullet Xchange. We are an international gaming community, started as a Planetside 2 Outfit on Ceres. In December 2013 we have started the GBX Community, which means that since then we are open to all sorts of games and gamers. You will find people from all around in our ranks.

If you want to join this large community just sign up for membership. You'll get an e-mail once the request is registered and accepted.

If you are unsure about joining us, have a look at some of our Planetside 2 Outfit-Trailers:

What do we offer?

GameLink System

Picture this: you just got back home and are up for a quick gaming session with friends. However, having to organize them through countless amounts of different communication channels like TeamSpeak, Facebook, Steam chat and such seems to be too much of a hussle. You realize that you don't want to get through it after a long day, so you decide on droping the plan, sadly and slowly hovering towards the sofa while numbly looking around for the remote in order to pitifully end the day in front of TV, watching another brainwashing show.
It is a sad image, and we figure that for many people even a sad reality. Now, picture this: what if you could do it without stressing and with just a few clicks? Impossible? Not really... We have it covered with our awesome GameLink System.

Think of GameLink System like an event management tool that helps you find outfit members to play your favorite games on the spot. You can easily set up and announce a gaming session of your choice, even schedule it time ahead. Also, your personal GamesList will be matched with other members' and if there will be an event created for a game from your list you'll get instantly notified about it. On top of that, for every Game Event and Event Time there will be a Discord Channel automatically created to help coordinate your in-game moves - another awesome feature that doesn't require micromanaging, being simply done for you instead. And all of it on the fly.
In other words - GameLink System is our way of ensuring that finding an outfit gaming session is extremely easy. It fuels and helps to knit tight our community, while also limiting the "do you play *gametitle*" to a null.

Take a peek of GameLink system and find out more. Also, take a look at GOG Galaxy Exporter - our sure shot method of updating games library.

International Community

Nationalities, cultures, customs, traditions - these are the things that often make us feel different or separate, while we simply do not understand them. And that is just if you are lucky. The feeling of difference is the mildest case in this situation, among other sensations like fear, hatred, ignorance, dismission. It may evolve to senselessness or isolation, may lead to this moment when you keep asking yourself "why am I in here?". How many of us want to be in a situation like that? By guesstimation, very few down to none. The easy way of getting through it is actually to leave or, perhaps more accordingly, escape.
Differences exist and lack of guiding through them is the seemingly unknown concern of many international communities. Ignoring to manage the issue is very often the main reason why they ultimately fail and cease to exist.

In GBX we took this matter very seriously, asking ourselves what can we do to make people from all around unwind together in the same place. And we came up with a way of battling through it. In our theory, exploration of these supposed differences makes it easier to find the similarities, which in turn leads to creation of an understanding and development of common perspective. Negating the existence of said differences does not.
Our members are encouraged to speak their minds. Let us know what constitutes you. Make it easier for people to understand you and your background, be it point of view or culture. Help us find a common space. Discuss what you feel is important. Ask if you cannot make sense of an issue. After all, this is why communities exist. Processing through it leads to generation of the most important resource any community can ever have, can thrive on and cannot continue to exist without. Namely, unity.

We come from different places. We live in different realities. We gaze from different perspectives. We dream in different languages. But we are above it.
We are GBX and we stand united.

...after this pompous (though infinitely honest) lead by Otei, a short vital note:
We encourage gamers from all over the world to join us, however our common language is English (no real proficiency required, communicative level is well enough). If you wish to find someone speaking your native language, check out our members list and find someone from your country.

Easy-going approach

Something went wrong with your gaming session. All of the sudden, people standing above you in group hierarchy are yelling that you are the reason of collective failure or simply not doing a good enough job. In this situation, you are doing it for free and their standing is only theoretical. But it is not really for free - it costs you in a way. Be it emotionally if you are taking it seriously, be it costly in time because you find it to be a waste. Or maybe simply with disappointment because this was not how you have envisioned your evening to look like. All in all, this should not happen.

In GBX, we believe that strict gaming value should never be measured in score or victories at the end of the session. Bringing what many of us describe as "passion" down to numbers is merely flattening the matter to statistics and you to a cog. Since when are outcome spreadsheets considered entertaining? You are right. They are not.
Mere winning can never be the only accomplishment before you quit the game for the day. Sure, some games demand structure, hierarchy and making plans for people to follow - that is how GBX came to existence in PlanetSide 2. But the main objective should always stay the same - having as much fun as possible. If that is not the case for you, you are doing this whole thing wrong. Following the wise words of an ancient Greek historian, Herodotus: "If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

The core of our community is 30+ years old so, when it comes to attendance, we are all very much aware how sneakily life can change priorities and schedules. Subjects like family, work, health or education are of utmost importance and should always take precedence above gaming. You need time, you take time and no one here will blame you for that. You will get back when you can and we will welcome you back happily.

Revolutionary spirit

We have all been there. Switching from one clan to another. Same difference, so let's try another. Yet another. It is as if gaming communities nowadays are straight out of cookie cutter or some general "easy start" template package. They all seem the same, with the same resources, same structures and, in the end, same problem of dullness after the initial excitement passes. Maybe it is a mark of our time, maybe it is some sort of universal complaisance. But should it be like this?

Standardisation of things is not a matter of how things should be. That is merely just a way of walking small steps between simple guidelines, but without creativity. "It is how it is" does not necessarily mean how it should be or that it is enough. In GBX we believe that everything can always be fixed and done better. It is important for us as a gaming community to be more and evolve. That cannot be achieved without a spark of idea and expansion.

No voiced opinion is virtually wrong from the get-go. Got an idea? Be the spark, question the standard, fire a bullet. Revolve.

Open for new

The gaming industry is in what it seems a never-ending boom for the past two decades. Each year amazing and fascinating new titles are being released, even more titles are teasing us proving that there is a lot more to wait for. With advancing technology, interesting in-game solutions and features, that industry is one of the most fascinating to follow in terms of entertainment. Being a witness to that happening is almost a privilege. Displayed as such, gaming is continuously expanding. And so are our horizons as a gaming community.

We are not dead-set on singled out titles, always waiting and looking out for new ones for our outfit to expand into. After all, diversity is what gives life a taste. Frantically running away from zombies, parrying incoming attacks with swords and axes, leading a charge of 200 angry mechanized infantry troopers or mining resources in the unknown blackness of cosmos - if there is potential, we are right there with you.

Check the games list to find what we are playing or drop a post on our forums if we have missed something. Hey, maybe you will even become GBX's branch manager in one of the titles and our new recruiter? Who knows, everything is possible.

Lead by veterans

After a hard day, the last thing you want is this bossy, online individual throwing a kiddie tantrum about nothing, while you are just trying to relax. Back from school, back from work and coming back to this? It is unbelievable that for many people this is the accepted norm. That is why it is always important to know that people running the outfit can make sound decisions. It would be wise to remember that leaders are not born, they are made. In GBX you are in safe hands.

Our roster consists of mature community managers, having years of experience in gaming organizations (not to mention being avid gamers for a long, long time). Having people like that running an outfit almost automatically limits the childish issues to none. With them everything can be planned and resolved in a highest degree, without all the unnecessary drama, with respect and dignity...

BECAUSE WE ARE GAMERS, GODDAMNIT, AND WE DESERVE IT!