Ignore what I said above, there are people still buying at prices like 0.0015.
It's still a worthwhile mining alternative, if for no other reason than to relieve the Bitcoin network of some pressure and buy a little wiggle room to keep the next difficulty re-target down.
Wrd, I've exchanged close to 16 BTC worth of Ixcoins in the time it would have taken me to make .4-.5 BTC. Still mining Ixcoin though and keeping some pressure off the Bitcoin network.