Even if none of the above is applicable, we should be lobbying Epic to bankroll the rest of the series anyway.
They made $3.3 billion in revenue last year alone, a $50-60 million budget is a drop in the ocean for them, and they're certainly not adverse to, um, throwing money away (lawsuits, EGS freebies/exclusivity deals). For anybody else the sales metrics and profit targets would kill the idea stone dead before YsNet even got their foot in the door, but with Epic there's the chance they might do it just because they can.