Yeah, I have a friend who got similarly addicted to WoW during undergrad, and dropped out.
I also have a friend who dropped out of high school for games, but it worked out! He became a fairly high end professional Counter-Strike player, moved to South Korea for awhile. Then when the CS professional scene stopped being as lucrative, online poker was taking off, he moved to online poker, and did VERY well financially off of that: https://www.sk-gaming.com/content/1844754-shaguar-to-run-cs-...
When he dropped out of high school to play CS, his parents were obviously very worried, but he treated it like a job and did really well.
I also have a friend who dropped out of high school for games, but it worked out! He became a fairly high end professional Counter-Strike player, moved to South Korea for awhile. Then when the CS professional scene stopped being as lucrative, online poker was taking off, he moved to online poker, and did VERY well financially off of that: https://www.sk-gaming.com/content/1844754-shaguar-to-run-cs-...
When he dropped out of high school to play CS, his parents were obviously very worried, but he treated it like a job and did really well.