Honestly Elite Dangerous didn't grab me as much because I like to go inside the ships, explore them and interact with them, and from what I've seen you can really do that in Elite. I've been playing a lot of Star Citizen though, it's really fun and actually a bit more stable now, and the major patches for it always add something new, a new mechanic, a new terrain feature, etc. I always just wind up getting sucked into the game. The most recent update added cave's, FPS mining and a law system, and a previous one added Blackmarket, so I always have fun exploring the caves, mining stuff out, then going to do drug runs and dodge to police to make that sweet aUEC.