I came back to WoW after a 2 year break. I didn't know a single active player on any server. I explained my situation to a few top tier raiding guilds and it wasn't long before I got a guild invite for my non-max level main character. There are decent groups of gamers in this world. Finding them takes more effort than zero however. My beef is with WoW's new Dungeon Finder system. You can stumble across some really great people, have the time of your life for an hour or so, and have no way of interacting with them for the rest of your life because they're from another server.

You need to contact anybody who gives a goddamn about him(friends, family) and arrange an intervention just as you would if he were addicted to crack. hire a psychologist who specializes in doing interventions to aid you in this process.