From my personal experience, no. As someone from the fighting game community, most pro players generally have jobs, make money and look healthy. Lets look at the pro American players like Filipino Champ, Alex Valle or Mike Ross. If you see them in videos or steams, they seem really happy playing their games. They look healthy and it seems they are enjoying their games and their current life. If you look at the fighting game community here in the west, particularly America and Canada, you have players from all over both countries competing in offine tournaments around the country. Tournaments like Canada Cup, the Ceo gaming tournament held in New Jersey, NorCal and SolCal tournaments in Calafornia and the biggest one of all and probably the biggest one in the world, Evolution, which is held and located in Las Vagas, Nervada. All of them held once a year. Players from around the country play in these tournaments, they meet other players and become friends with them.
Let's look at Japan, where arcades and fighting games strive. Daigo Umehara, the world's most renowned Street Fighter player, flies to America and participates in American tournaments. He won Evolution 2009 and 2010 and was top 8 in 2011. In Japan, he practices in arcades every once in a while with other players. Recently, he went around the entire nation of Japan to promote the dying arcades. He is also married and has a son and currently works as a male nurse. In Japan, it is considered a social activity when going to arcades. Fighting game players regularly hold ranbat tournaments monthly and get money (for example tachikawa aracades, gameacho, gamechariot). They meet and greet other fighting game players and respect other players.
The fighting game community is a very SOCIAL community compared to the other genres. We don't like playing online. We usually meet in a specific location and play offline. We are friendly towards other players and even new players (as long as they respect you and don't do anything stupid). We are loud when we see something "HYPE." We are supportive of other players and respect them. Although we get a little salty when playing somethings, we are a generally nice community.
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