Anybody else having trouble playing?

When I update, I keep getting that infamous "An Update error has occurred message 20524" after the patch download, when it's checking update file. Usually the fix was just changing the game.ver file to reflect the most recent update.. however that's not working this time (unless i'm putting the wrong date in, which could be a possibility).

Can someone tell me what the new game.ver date is if you've successfully updated? I tried 04.23, 04.25 and 04.26, and the latter two bring me to the opening screen before choosing a character, only to give me the message An update is required to play FFXIV. Click accept and launch FFXIV again. I have turned my anti-virus off for the download so that's not the issue.

Thanks in advance for the help.
- Mack