There is an easy fix to this:

First go to: C:/Users/''computer's name''/My Documents/My Games/Final Fantasy XIV- A Realm Reborn

There you will find a file called FFXIV_BOOT
open it using the notepad. in there youll see a bunch of texts that goes roughly or exactly like this:


<FINAL FANTASY XIV Boot Config File>

<Version>
Version 2
Language 1
Region 2
EulaAgreement 1
StartupCompleted 1
B4EulaAgreement 0
BootVersionCheckMode 0
ConfigReset 0

What you wanna do is force your patcher in to dowloading the recent 2.2 patch. in order to do this, youll change the line:

BootVersionCheckMode 0 to BootVersionCheckMode 1

close the file and say yes to save it. now go start your game as usual. this will force your patcher to update itself