Talk:Fall Out Boy Update/@comment-60.240.13.149-20180208113847/@comment-31458611-20180208204251

" if they dont upload it on Play store [...] there is a reason why it is still not"

There is, but not what you might fear. What the OP advised is perfectly sound, safe and legit. The stuff you download from either Play Store or APK Pure is not the game itself, it's only a loader or installer of the game (about 60 MB).

Next to it, the game code itself is humongous, about 1.5 GB (which grows on your device to at least 2.7 GB in decompressed/ executable form), and comes from GL's servers, not Google's. The reason GL wants the Play Store to roll out the installer gradually over a few days is to flatten the peaks of demand on the server; otherwise, their (already precaurious) servers would succumb to the surge of too many players downloading gigabytes at the same time.

PS: "APK" is an Android term that stands for Application Package. When installing some app thru the Play Store, you effectively download an APK, but don't see it because a service embedded in your Android device automates the whole installation process.