Yes, a game lover be successful while gaming and perusing his goals like a professional freelancer but remember that gamers can also become Professional Freelance Gamers without leaving gaming world.
Here is How:
1) By establishing their presence on social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, where YouTube is recommended due to its nature of passive income and AdSense + additional benefits of receiving products offers, amazing gifts, gadgets and free stuff from gaming brands who want promotion of their stuff
2) By doing reviews and reactions on gaming products, game trailers, game gadgets, game trailers, game companies, playing games, showing guides, sharing walkthroughs, giving tutorials, sharing gaming products and useful resources
3) Offerings freelance services for video game beta testing, providing ideas and suggestions to developers or companies for help improving their video games,
4) By creating gaming characters, game musics, mobile games, pc games for companies or self-solo products to sell online or freely share with Google’s AdSense for passive income
5) By sharing useful games with gaming audience on YouTube
6) By creating gaming courses on Udemy platform for gamers
7) By contacting game companies and work with them directly and remotely to help them for their games
There are many other ways too but if you wish to play video games without making it your source of income and freelancing only with other skills such as coding, healing, video editing, counseling, etc then it’s your own choice.