Ladies, ladies... You are all pretty... lol.... In all seriousness I wasn't meaning to start anything such as this. I was simply trying to find out what people were talking about because I could not find it officially, so to speak...
Meh.. I think time is on ED's side, though. At least we have a game now that we can play which is fully functional.
No Man's Sky is due out soon (unless it gets bumped again) and will be awesome for explorers but isn't going to appeal to many others. On the other hand Star Citizen will appeal to the more combat focused but it's going to be years before it's ready to go live. I know they say later this year but it will be quite a miracle if that happens considering everything in that game is hand crafted. If you look at some videos of alpha gameplay you'll start realise how much work there is yet to do. I'm not bagging the game, just saying it has a long way to go yet.
Besides No Mans Sky, which is a sci-fi game and really should be treated separately, Elite Dangerous is ahead of everything else. It doesn't need to do anything different from other games because it already is.