 His philosophy is, "in order for us to give up the revenues we depend on as a share, they have to be bringing something of value to our sales," and if not, then he is happy to take his chances without them, because "we haven't been doing badly ourselves" on the other available platforms that will have his games.Lanning says the industry has to get past the "old way of thinking," where the richest companies control everything down from the publisher and developer through to the consumer, especially when the popularity of indie gaming has exploded in the last few years.He compares the differing attitudes of Microsoft and Sony towards independent developers in the gaming space with the differing policies of Sotheby's and eBay in the auction space, concluding that eBay is the more favoured option because it allows anyone to sell anything as long as it has an audience.