You are somewhat wrong about that. Epic is backed by Tencent. And although I haven’t really notice Tencet having big impact on Epic operation (or so it appears to public).
If they wanted to buyout Crytek, and convinced Tencent to do it, money would the least of the problems .
But I’m not sure if Crytek is public company. AFAIR it’s still fully owned by Yerli’s, so you can’t just buyout stock from share holders.
Anyway. I don’t have any speculations. If nothing happen it’s still going to be cool regardless!