1: Evil Trout comes up with a good idea

2: ET creates a buggy alpha testbed.

3: Episode 1, with decent plot and horrible gameplay goes live.

4: ET decides to censor logged out users in the name of PR

5: An elitist communtity of like-minded individuals is formed, with bumhurt and humor.

6: Episode 2, an extension of the first, is released.

7: Episode 3, featuring enhanced gameplay, lifts it to mediocrity. The game begins to need actual skills once again.

8: Epsiode 4 is designed with the help of a larger group of developers. FWZ becomes a full-scale RPG.

9: People that would not otherwise like FWZ join due to the enhanced mechanics, and the media covers the offensiveness that is FWZ.

10: With the new userbase, people complain about the content and ET tones it down a bit to adapt to the new audience.

11: Mods realize something is wrong but deal, as Banhammer says “The game’s pretty much PG-13 anyway..” (Ha! Hahaha!)

12: Trout gets the game rated by the ESRB. Half the game is redone.

13: The RP forum is removed; The wordfilter is force-applied to logged in users. This is the Beginning of the End.

14: Advertising is shifted from 4-Chan and ED to more general-purpose sources completely.

15: The old userbase leaves, leaving only mainstream users.

16: ET rakes in the cash.

17: ET sells out to Blizzard, and FWZ is blackholed into oblivion.