I am not here to debate the merits of 4th Edition D&D. From what I can glean, it has its good points and its bad points. Mostly what I've heard is that the good points are in the system and the bad points are in the business. I imagine that this is what drove Paizo to Pathfinder RPG. Actually, I'm excited about both of these new offereings.
My question is about the virtual gametable portion of DDI. Again, from what I hear, it is system agnostic. Its advertising points include the idea of gaming with your old group a time zone away. While it not the first solution for this, with WoTC behind it, it could become a de facto standard. Of course, with WoTC behind it, it could also price itself out of business.
Let's be optimistic and assume the former. The last time I asked about this, Paizo knew very little about this tabletop. Based on the fact that the game license for 4th edition itself would not be released for months at that point, I am not surprised (though I was then). I suspect that WoTC has been too busy with 4E launch stuff to prime to pipeline for DDI extras with 3rd parties, but one can hope.
So, after much preamble, my question is this, does Paizo intend to support its products with DDI virtual tableop representations of the maps and/or avatars?
I could extend this question beyond DDI. I notice that Paizo is providing data sets for RPGXplorer Characters and Rules. What about the RPGXplorer GM Tools that is supposed to be coming out?