Perhaps you feel dumb because you can't understand what I am saying.

First you say this...
"-If they had low confidence to retain subs they wouldn't increase the price, they would lower it, anyone could think of that."

Then you say this.
"-So you wanted them to reduce the price to 1 to artificially increase their numbers for a month or 2 and when they don't do that it's backwards and dumb?"

Do you not see the contradiction in your own arguments?

"not having a permanent 94% off sale highlights how much they worry about losing sales? so sony must be extremely worried about their sales of ps+ because they never do those kinda sales or does it only apply to ms?"

Sony has been very clear on where they stand when it comes to game sales versus subscriptions, so when you make this argument its irrelevant to Sony because Sony is not putting its games on any service day one.

So the answer to your basic premise is: Yes, Sony is worried about subscriptions lowering the profit from traditional sales.

"Also do you really think they're worried about anything with a new COD releasing? it's gonna be a cashcow either way"

Maybe, but recently CoD games haven't been making as much as they used to. But that aside, I believe you're ignoring the basic point here. That Microsoft stands to lower the income of CoD by putting it on a subscription (at any price) IF THEY CAN"T RETAIN users for at least 3 months(60$ worth).

But of course it's much more complicated than that because they also need to add games to the service, so while in the past if they sold CoD for $60 they got the $60 to pay for development now that $60 has to pay for CoD's development as well as the upkeep of the service. And on top of that we have seen data that shows that when a game is on a subscription users are less likely to buy DLC/MTX.

Which leads back to my entire point, Microsoft chose to increase their profits via removing the discount against the potential to gain long term subscribers. Which isn't exactly the look your going for when you big goal is the subscription versus traditional sale through a digital marketplace or retail.

Which again is why they are putting their games on Nintendo and PlayStation... to retain some value from game sales.

How can you get downvoted for stating facts lol