One of the ways our group is using to counter this is the rule that all clerics know the spells in the Basic rules or the Players Handbook to cast any other spells they have to find them in a prayer book or on a scroll. So any future books that come out does not automatically add the spells.
My impressions of 4e are that some of it is good and some not so good.
In our group we have on any given night from 6 to 20 players ranging from 12 years old to 46 years old. We have 4 females and the rest are males.
The players under 18 years old find it easier to play 4e then 3e, the rest of...