Why do most mounts have severe cataracts?

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Beyondgrave]

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

[Titor]

They also look pretty pumped full of steroids as well.

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

[Parodine]

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

[Azper]

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.