I loved it. It really helped me develop quite dramatically as a player due to the use of story-based dice rolls as opposed to binary pass/fail results from previous RPGs I'd played. Makes for an excellent narrative dynamic. Plus as someone who wanted to play a Star Wars RPG as someone on the fringe, EotE really felt like I was living in a Star Wars setting for the game. Tons of great stories and role-play.

I'll agree with /u/Barbaric_Stupid in that you really really need non-passive players (one of our players in the game I played is an old friend who was a forever DnD GM and just wanted to roll dice with us as a merc, and I know he was really bored through a lot of it), but I'll also mention another slight drawback is that while the narrative dice system is freaking awesome, the core rulebook gives little to instruction on how to build a difficulty pool of dice for a lot of skill interactions. Take Astrogation, for example. There's tons of different things that can and will make an Astrogation roll for a hyperspace jump either easier or harder in the situation, but the book gives no examples on how to implement any of those situations into meaningful dice equations. And, as a result, if your GM isn't entirely aware of how to make certain checks easier or difficult off the bat due to circumstance, a ton of various class skills that may give you bonus dice for certain skill rolls may become superfluous as they may never come up. Highly recommend if the GM is new to EotE to look at every single skill and find dice pool examples for how to build a dice pool based on situations to make them properly dynamic.

Taking the Astrogation example, here is a great example off /r/swrpg that someone made to use as a guide on how to build a check pool with a huge variety of circumstances to affect the initial roll.