We noticed yesterday that we are no longer getting search results back when calling PlayFabEconomyAPI.SearchItems with something entered in the Search field. We allow users to enter a search term, and are appending * to their entry. Up until yesterday, this seemed to work fine, and allowed for both exact and partial matches. Now, we are getting nothing back for partial matches, with or without the *, and exact matches function only without the *. Has something changed recently on your end?
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For the general availability release, we now automatically escape all lucene special characters in search queries. In most cases, this just prevented input validation errors, but '{asterisk}' is the lone exception. We've discussed supporting it officially, but we don't have a plan to at this point in time. After this behavior change, specifying '{asterisk}' in the input will look for the character literal and not a wildcard.
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