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Fate/View Order is still unclear and could use a formal cited source for clarification

What should I watch first?: Entire dissertations could be written discussing the arguments for starting with several different options, but I'll cover them in the order that makes the most sense, which other fans are most welcome to noisily disagree with in the comments.

Afterwards, we discussed it over and over. After a few continuous meet-ups, the draft of volume one was finally completely in the winter of 2004.
Some readers might be surprised that at the time, Hollow was obviously not finished, so why was volume one concluded!?
(Because we were too busy at that time. In 2005 we also began to do a lot of new commercialisation. Afterwards, as we sorted out all the personnel the company got back on track again.)
Because of that, Urobuchi-san thought ‘Zero is a story based on Fate. So it’s better if Zero doesn’t become available to the public before Fate is released.’ Therefore, after waiting for a year, it was finally released in the winter of 2006. That’s how things went.
The above is Urobuchi-san and Zero’s initial encounter.

Urobuchi: Even at the time of "Fate/Zero", I thought that it was a story that I could not understand unless I played "Fate / stay night", but unexpectedly there are people who knew "Fate" from "Fate / Zero". However, it was a story that I played with "Fate / stay night", so there were many expressions that I could not understand unless I read it on the premise of it. For a while, I refused to publish anything other than Type-Moon Books.

Gen Urobuchi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Phantom - The Animation, Blassreiter) stated on his Twitter account on Sunday that he is not writing the scripts for the upcoming Fate/Zero television anime series.

--Did you direct it with "can be enjoyed even without the grand backdrop" as your goal?

Aoki: To tell you the truth, while I did know what Fate/stay night was, I didn't have a good understanding of it when I read Fate/Zero. I think reading the story under such circumstances, rather than say I understood it, it was more like the author made the need to understand it irrelevant. So I directed the anime with the idea of "since I can get it, the audience should be able to get it as well" in mind. I didn't place too much effort on explaining these things. I think this is the result of Urobuchi-sensei's excellent writing skills.

--Ah I see. It seems Fate/Zero has become popular not only among TYPE-MOON fans or anime fans, but a much larger audience.

Aoki: Now that you mention it, back in January when we were making the storyboard in a restaurant, a stranger came up and said "it was a blast watching Fate/Zero" (laughs). That person seemed to be someone in the music department, so it seems different types of people were able to enjoy our anime. It made me very happy.

Please remember to clarify this rather than provide articles that are basically opinion pieces and help resolve this issue for our community.