I'm still on VMWare Workstation - it's definitely findable, I only got the latest version a few weeks ago.

This is something that's actually improved, because I had to buy it before. 

Yeah, me too. It seems they forgot that they are a major international company for a few weeks. If they have good intentions then it's sadly masked by poor execution. I went to a third party file download site, grabbed a copy and everything worked fine after that.