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You can definitely make some money. There's a market for WoW gold or whatever, and I'm sure you could scrounge up some cash with an hour or two per night.
The problem you'll encounter is that in most games, there's a positive feedback loop where you get more powerful, and you can earn more per hour, which lets you get more powerful. In other words, while you're tinkering around gathering 20 gold nuggets per RL hour, the "expert" and his level 45723 character are raiding the Dungeon of Horrible Death for 10,000 gold nuggets per RL Hour. (People go to the DoHD because the rewards are high. If they weren't, they'd just farm the same place you're at and skip the danger.)
The wall you're going to hit is that the "expert" might value his time at $100/hour (a comfy salary for any job), which means he can sell nuggets for $0.01 each. This devalues your nuggets enough to make your profit $0.20/hour, which will just about pay for the electricity and bandwidth needed to farm gold nuggets for a living.
I think you could make a living as a casual farmer if you were once an expert, and had a "super" character sitting around who could most efficiently farm a game. Along the way, you'd probably acquire enough expertise to know where the best stuff is, etc. But otherwise, you're probably talking about such meager amounts of money that you should just kick back and enjoy the time.
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