Why do most mounts have severe cataracts?

If you take a look at the mounts, many, many of them seem to have cloudy eyes/cataracts.

None of them really have proper eyes, is there a reason for it? I do not think it makes them look more fantasy or exotic, it just looks like almost all of our mounts are blind.

http://i.imgur.com/CzfXdYo.png?1
http://i.imgur.com/WHYn5NB.png?1
http://i.imgur.com/KlUKy3h.png?1
http://i.imgur.com/m6VdPi4.png?1

(This pic was found on google, not mine)
http://i.imgur.com/gTBSuGy.jpg?2

If you image search cataracts (not going to post them here since some people are squeamish about stuff like that) you will notice that these mount eyes look very, very similar to severe cataracts, even down to the slight glowing sheen that appears on them.

Is there an endemic going on in Eorzea that is causing all of our mounts and animals to become blind?

I never noticed my coeurl was grey eyed... Either there's something wrong with the eye graphics (textures?) on your part, or I've simply been blind to the matter no pun intended!

In the case of the last three, it could be intentional blinding of these creatures to render them docile. Just a thought?

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Originally Posted by AmyNeudaiz

In the case of the last three, it could be intentional blinding of these creatures to render them docile. Just a thought?

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I doubt it. Who'd want to ride a blind horse? Before you know it you're off the cliff!

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Originally Posted by Leowilde

I never noticed my coeurl was grey eyed... Either there's something wrong with the eye graphics (textures?) on your part, or I've simply been blind to the matter no pun intended!

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I had my friend look as well, and cross-referenced it across some pics I googled and it seems that the coeurls do indeed have grey/white cataract eyes

DUH you would to if you were alive since Final Fantasy 1- 14

i am just kidding lol

This is most likely intentional as a way of showing they're pacified/docile.

It would be VERY unlikely that they'd make the same mistake for so many mounts.


In the case of horse-eyes they're usually dark/glossy and have very little detail to them for the most part.

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Originally Posted by Shioban

This is most likely intentional as a way of showing they're pacified/docile.

It would be VERY unlikely that they'd make the same mistake for so many mounts.


In the case of horse-eyes they're usually dark/glossy and have very little detail to them for the most part.

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I just found some wild coeurls and can confirm that they have the same glossy/white look, so it seems to be more like all coeurls have these eyes and not just pacified mounts

Sounds like lazy/bad design to me, just like their love for starved-looking horses (and now wolf...).

PS3 limitations.

They are mounts, i mean, how often do you look at the eyes of mounts?

In the case of Coeurls, many of them have gaze attacks, so their eyes are not "normal". Horses tend to have eyes like that. Behemoths well... fantasy creatures o_O Lions? well, I dunno.

The blank-color eyes are meant (in the case other than horses) to give them an otherworldly feel. Kinda like Storm from the X-Men with her all-white eyes in angrymode. If they look like cataracts well, that's mostly because we don't have behemoths, coeurls, and weird chihuahua lions in real life.

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Originally Posted by Jeykama

The blank-color eyes are meant (in the case other than horses) to give them an otherworldly feel. Kinda like Storm from the X-Men with her all-white eyes in angrymode. If they look like cataracts well, that's mostly because we don't have behemoths, coeurls, and weird chihuahua lions in real life.

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Are you sure they weren't just too lazy to give them proper eyes?

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Originally Posted by Riepah

Are you sure they weren't just too lazy to give them proper eyes?

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Eyes aren't difficult to model or texture, so it's intentional.

See below;

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Originally Posted by Titor

I just found some wild coeurls and can confirm that they have the same glossy/white look, so it seems to be more like all coeurls have these eyes and not just pacified mounts

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Originally Posted by Volcano

They are mounts, i mean, how often do you look at the eyes of mounts?

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I-I look often... is a love for detail down to every nook and cranny bad?? I've noticed this ages past OP. I have no answer even now.

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Originally Posted by Shioban

Eyes aren't difficult to model or texture, so it's intentional.

See below;

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This. It's not a matter of them being lazy so much as it's a stylization choice.

I think it is a style choice. Chocobos always had those beady eyes for example.

yea, definitely a style choice, anyone with even a smidge of character modelling experience knows that the eyes are one of the easiest parts to model/texture... nothing to do with laziness.

Their texture is really awfull when you zoom in anyway i hope they will upgrade textures in general....one day.

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Originally Posted by Riepah

Are you sure they weren't just too lazy to give them proper eyes?

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You're seriously calling, the same group of people, who spent years rebuilding the game and re-releasing it to the public, lazy?

Like some people already said, replacing the texture to have a "proper eye" is not hard at all, so it's definitely intentional, or maybe it has something to do with the lore.
It's definitely part of a design.

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Originally Posted by TeaTimeBear

I-I look often... is a love for detail down to every nook and cranny bad?? I've noticed this ages past OP. I have no answer even now.

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I love looking in my Chocobo's eyes, you can see the scenery reflected in them.

I'm surprise no one has said this yet so here goes... FIX IT OR I QUIT!! :)

They also look pretty pumped full of steroids as well.

Maybe this is to a be a lesson, steroid abuse will make you blind

I'm gonna open up a clinic as a veterinary ophthalmologist in the game. I'll make millions, mwhahaha.

I honestly never paid that much attention to their eyes. If it were something that was more prominent and I had to look at all the time, it might bother me more, but as it stands I'm usually zoomed out all the way where it doesn't matter much.

It's a lore explanation for why your mount can run against a wall or whatnot indefinitely when you toggle autorun and afk for a minute.

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Originally Posted by Tauu

PS3 limitations.

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http://mylittlefacewhen.com/media/f/...0088_small.jpg

Next thing you know, we'll have petitioners asking them to cut off PS3 support and referring to the PS3 as a type of "cancer tumor" that once rid of will allow the game to prosper! XD

ANYONE whose browsed the FFXI forums at some point will know what sig I'm talking about. X3

From 1.x

http://oi61.tinypic.com/28klxy8.jpg

http://oi62.tinypic.com/53shw8.jpg

Well for horses, if they aren't looking a specific direction they look like they have flat black eyes.
http://www.carlthurowappraisals.net/.../horse_eye.jpg

So I believe it is pretty intentional on that part as you don't actively see your horse eyes moving around.

But a nice fun fact with the eyes, they do mirror the area where the mount is looking so that is a lovely attention to detail.

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Originally Posted by Leowilde

I doubt it. Who'd want to ride a blind horse? Before you know it you're off the cliff!

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That's just where the fun begins ;D

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Originally Posted by Leowilde

I doubt it. Who'd want to ride a blind horse? Before you know it you're off the cliff!

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Originally Posted by Rhas

That's just where the fun begins ;D

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Won't happen. You would run into an invisible wall.

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Originally Posted by Pantz

Won't happen. You would run into an invisible wall.

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Not every cliffs have invisible wall. As example you can fall down the cliff outside of camp dragonhead.
Only the cliffs with no way to go back have invisible walls.

Jamesy is here to lay down some facts. First a horse and their rider is a form of symbiosis as well most horses can't see directly below their jaw and a few have blinders. This is where horse riding becomes about trust specially with hurtles. The horse doesn't jump by itself most cases a que is given that being said if your horse ran off a cliff it would be the riders fault for not directing it properly.