Why do most mounts have severe cataracts?

[Volcano]

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

[Jeykama]

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.

[Riepah]

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.

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

[Shioban]

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

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

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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

[TeaTimeBear]

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

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.

[Amused]

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

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

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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

[Gralna]

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.

[Loki]

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

[Decrith]

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

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.