Life is busy and many of us gamers are no longer highschoolers with plenty of time on our hands to RPG with our friends. Rather a large proportion have jobs, families, etc that we have responsibilities to and electronic gaming via VTT is our alternative to traditional face-to-face tabletop games.
I second that sentiment...
I have been a consistent subscriber to Paizo since they took over Dungeon magazine and made the decision to go with Pathfinder instead of 4e based on the direction of open support that Paizo showed. I was really hoping for some official support for the VTT market as that seems to me to be a natural evolution of the previous decisions and directions taken by Paizo.