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Soon after, Northwood studio manager The Lord of Baguettes replied to the conversation, which was to explain what the OSR was, that communities with official servers may run community servers adjacently, and that they can opt-out of the program at any time.<ref>{{Cite Discord|name=The Lord of Baguettes|date=12 September 2023|server=SCP: Secret Laboratory|img=DisasterDen55.png|access-date=2023-10-01|channel=scp-discussion}}</ref> Shelter stated that for Disaster Den in particular, due to their player base mostly being those that played on the official servers, the loss of the official servers was the same as the community dying.<ref>{{Cite Discord|name=Shelter|date=12 September 2023|server=SCP: Secret Laboratory|img=DisasterDen56.png|access-date=2023-10-01|channel=scp-discussion|quote=The issue was that without official status, there was no guarantee DDen would be able to keep a reasonable player count, therefore killing it}}</ref> The Lord of Baguettes replied that while official servers have high turnover, the size of their Discord servers showed a strong community base, and then cited an anecdote of how another community left the official program and had participation increase.<ref>{{Cite Discord|name=The Lord of Baguettes|date=12 September 2023|server=SCP: Secret Laboratory|img=DisasterDen57.png|access-date=2023-10-01|channel=scp-discussion|quote=Official servers tend to see lots of turnover rate, but the size of their community discords tend to imply a strong community presence... redline left the official program for some time and actually grew in playerbase iirc}}</ref> Their final comment reiterated that, ultimately, those in the program may leave it if they are dissatisfied, and that the stated goal of the program is for the servers to align with what Game Design Team considers a vanilla experience.<ref>{{Cite Discord|name=The Lord of Baguettes|date=12 September 2023|server=SCP: Secret Laboratory|img=DisasterDen58.png|access-date=2023-10-01|channel=scp-discussion|quote=The reality of it is that partners can leave the program if they are unhappy at any time, or can stay in it and run community servers how they wish. The stated goal of the OSR is to allign with what our game design team considers to be "vanilla" gameplay (i think rust uses a similar system)?}}</ref>