Your account doesn't have access to path of exil 2 early access (I do on EPIC GAMES)

Dear Support team,
    I am writing this email to report an issue logging in PoE2 first time I downloaded this with the key my friend gave me
It is a EPIC Key so I redeemed it in Epic Games and downloaded but then after the intro cinematic ended there was 2 options for me to log in

The one on the left is like "continue with epic" something like that
The one on the right is like "link accounts" something like that

I chose number 2 and I thought that it would also be able to click play the game through Steam and show my playing status for friends and can invite my friends from steam to join my party.
Seems like I did a very bad mistake because after linking the steam account with the game it is like the game checks beta access via Steam but not on my Epic Games even though I instealled and clicked launch the game on Epic

This is actually my first time playing POE2 and it is not quite a good experience I would say.