We passed block 720 000 and the PoW rewards are now reduced to 10 XMINE per block.
This was a successful hard-fork. Phew!
Yes, it works well. I'm running this version and there is no issue until now. I will mine some coins with my miners and I expect the price will be higher than before.
As for the price, I would imagine we need to wait for Bitcoin price to settle down to a more stable state before we see more value pouring into altcoins like XMINE. The trend at the moment seems to be to cash in on the Bitcoin rally. Once that is stable, we will see the return of investments into developing coins.