I unfortunately needed to install VMware Workstation today but I had to give up.
There is no way to download the installer from broadcom. Best guess by people on Reddit is, that someone has to approve your account first before downloads work - the error message is just a generic failure.
Absolutely insane.
@faker Yep, had the same problem a while ago. I ended up downloading it through other sources and manually verifying the file hash (Broadcom luckily publishes those)