At least it has real pvp in it.
WoW: lulz i respawned go kill that thing! (your stupid WoW player with his gear intact)
Eve: Oh fuck my ship got destroyed! (His ship is permenantly destroyed)
buys a new ship and fits it out again
not that hard to make isk in eve tbh
When I played it I started with 1 mill and had reached 20 mill within the first week by just buying stuff cheap and selling them at a 100-1500% mark up
But then again, your typical Battleship with fit cost around 300 Mil ISK. True that with some decent hacking skills, you can earn that in two hours or so, but the average player doesn't have good hacking skills, and might have to grind around 5 hours to get that kind of ISK (0.0 only). To add onto that, you are putting your money making ships on the line, everytime you rat/mine in 0.0.
And battleships is a rather cheap ship.... A carrier with decent fittings and drones can easily cost 2Bil, not to mention the 30Bil for a mothership or 150Bil for a titan!