Well, I agree, almost pathetic that the game was released with faked higher resolutions and no FSAA.
The Good new is, there's a fellow with the username
maerean_m from Bucharest, Romania. Apparently he is a Dev and stated in the 'A Message From the Silent Hunter IV Dev Team'(which is a sticky) that FSAA and AF will be possible by forcing it with your video card driver...
in Patch 1.2
So as long as they are able to deliver on that it won't be to awful long from now. It might be a full month or so from now, but at least it will, hopefully, be in the next patch!