If WoW were like Eve;
There would be a few safe cities and everywhere else pvp . The entire world would be a desert and you could only travel and fight along the roads in between the cities. There would be no story line or quests that had any substance. Every time you died you'd lose all your armor and some skill points . Resource harvesting would be from a rock- no other types , and all rocks would look the same .
Groups of players would roam along the roads looking to kill and loot other players(because there is nothing else to do)

Eve isn't complicated or difficult - it's poorly organized and tedious ..... Purposely tedious . It's as if your single greatest accomplishment in this game is sticking with it for so long