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Gemstone has thousands of paying customers and it isn't that much different in scope as Medievia, with a completely different code base and engine. The basic mechanical idea is - you kill stuff to earn coins and advance. Empaths are one class that doesn't have to rely on it, but as I've seen (and experienced in former days as a player) your options as an empath are:
1) Sit in the town square with a whole lot of snerts, attempting to roleplay while spam-healing everyone who walks in with an injury and hoping they tip you for your trouble.
2) Run scripts so everytime you see someone's death scroll on your screen, you can "fog" to them, grab them, fog them to safety, spam-heal them, and hope that if/when a cleric ressurrects them, they tip you for your trouble.
3) Say to hell with healing and become a "warpath" and hunt to get coins and levels.
Why get levels? Two primary reasons: So you can show everyone how bad-ass you are, and so you can sell your character on e-bay, for cash that you then use to pay for another character, thus making the game pay for itself in the long run - and possibly even turn a profit.
Sounds a lot like Medievia, though I don't know if their players sell characters for cash.
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