User blog comment:Luperza/Brasil, PlanetSide 2 and Things/@comment-196.210.197.6-20131023112157/@comment-5765779-20131023183157

We do have preventative hack/cheat prevention, but hackers and cheats are innovative!

As far as your suggestion of locking players from swapping factions, what is preventing them from creating a new account? Being a free to play game, we have to come up with more exotic ways of getting around the issue. :)